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My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Celebrity Equinox this week. And Dan Skilken, president of tripinsurance.com stops by to answer a lot of your listener questions regarding the current travel situation out there. So we'll jump right to him now. Hey, Dan.

Doug, thank you so much. And thank you for having me on. It's always great to talk with you.

A lot happening out there with everything globally right now, including tensions over in the Middle East.

How does travel insurance respond to geopolitical events?

Well, Doug, some risks are covered, like terrorist attacks or the complete and total closure of an

airport or airspace that recently happened over the Caribbean with what happened down in

Venezuela.

Those sorts of things are typically covered.

But acts of war are specifically excluded from all insurance policies.

If you check your homework plan, you're going to likely see an exclusion there too for an act of war.

And so if a war breaks out and for instance, you've got a cruise in the Red Sea or you've got,

you're going to one of the Far East countries, you're

going to have a problem. And this is, this is a good reason to get canceled for any reason coverage.

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