Maldives 8-12 November
Nov 3, 2020, 1:34 am
#76
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: Ronin - churn and burn
Posts: 701
That timeframe falls within the dates of the UK lockdown.
This job cannot be completed from home and I must travel to carry it out.
Which law am I breaking?
Need to check your travel/heath insurance wording very carefully. Most travel insurance policies don't cover business travel - so if you're trying to make a case that it's a business trip, then you risk losing insurance cover (or at least giving the insurer an easy route to deny coverage).
Will give them a quick call on Thursday though, presuming that MPs vote through the new measures and see whether this invalidates the insurance.
If it does I'll take out additional insurance with Battleface for around £65.
Exactly this. I also want to add that I own a hotel in the Caribbean and am fed up to the back teeth of scroungers saying "give me a free room and I will feature you on my blog as I'm such an important influencer". I get at least one a day, and they're never half as important or influential as they claim to be. The type of person who thinks they shouldn't need to pay for a room is exactly the same type who thinks that lockdowns and immigration rules don't apply to them.
I'm not sure that the entire staff of the Sunday Times Travel supplement don't think that lockdowns and immigration rules apply to them though.
Are those working in print media exempt from your assertion?
Nov 3, 2020, 4:03 am
#77
Moderator: Qatar Airways
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: LHR/NCE/MIA
Programs: BAEC GfL & GGL, SQ Gold, Amex Centurion, Mucci des Chevaliers des Bons Mots et Qui Savent Moucher
Posts: 8,948
Just to add something quickly - a lot of the time it is actually the hotel that approaches the media opposed to the other way round.
Sure the hotel will comp their rooms for a few days, but the exposure the hotel gains can be significant - and they'll invite people from a variety of different medias because that means they're seen by different demographics.
For the most part, I'm sure it is 'Influencers' reaching out to hotels offering them guaranteed exposure, but it does swing the other way and can be quite lucrative for the hotels (and sometimes far cheaper than it used to be to gain interest).
I was in Capri last month, and on our final day there were 6 'Influencers' who had been given free rooms in exchange for media coverage. Two of the people I spoke to were Instagram people (albeit from different countries to ensure different followers saw the content), and the others were from different media forms.
I found the whole thing quite interesting and looked at the posts they put up.
They took a variety of photos of the suites, which they were not staying in, as well as generic location photos featuring the hotel.
Net result? My Mother called me on Sunday to ask if I'd seen that the hotel had been featured in one of the Sunday papers, and commented on how wonderful it looked.
I know the cost to the hotel (the FOM told me), and I can absolutely guarantee the gain in future bookings has easily covered it.
Don't be too quick to judge.
M
Sure the hotel will comp their rooms for a few days, but the exposure the hotel gains can be significant - and they'll invite people from a variety of different medias because that means they're seen by different demographics.
For the most part, I'm sure it is 'Influencers' reaching out to hotels offering them guaranteed exposure, but it does swing the other way and can be quite lucrative for the hotels (and sometimes far cheaper than it used to be to gain interest).
I was in Capri last month, and on our final day there were 6 'Influencers' who had been given free rooms in exchange for media coverage. Two of the people I spoke to were Instagram people (albeit from different countries to ensure different followers saw the content), and the others were from different media forms.
I found the whole thing quite interesting and looked at the posts they put up.
They took a variety of photos of the suites, which they were not staying in, as well as generic location photos featuring the hotel.
Net result? My Mother called me on Sunday to ask if I'd seen that the hotel had been featured in one of the Sunday papers, and commented on how wonderful it looked.
I know the cost to the hotel (the FOM told me), and I can absolutely guarantee the gain in future bookings has easily covered it.
Don't be too quick to judge.
M
Nov 3, 2020, 1:31 pm
#79
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Cambridge, UK
Programs: Mucci, BA GGL/CCR
Posts: 761
I have a contract in place, containing a stipulated set of deliverables which must be completed for my Maldivian client within a set timeframe.
That timeframe falls within the dates of the UK lockdown.
This job cannot be completed from home and I must travel to carry it out.
Which law am I breaking?
That timeframe falls within the dates of the UK lockdown.
This job cannot be completed from home and I must travel to carry it out.
Which law am I breaking?
Nov 3, 2020, 2:23 pm
#80
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: Ronin - churn and burn
Posts: 701
Work visas require the 14 day quarantine as they apply to a different category of visitor (long term employees)
https://immigration.gov.mv/pre-entry...g-to-maldives/