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Wintry weather in U.S. increases interest in snowfall derivatives

News 3rd February 2011

It’s two years since the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) launched its snowfall derivative contracts giving market participants a way to hedge the risks of there being too much snowfall and that impacting their business and profits. The snowfall contracts have been gaining traction and increasing interest especially since the recent snow storms have struck the […]

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Now you can guarantee your holiday against a hurricane

News 26th July 2009

We’ve written pretty extensively about weather refund promotions which are becoming popular as a way to pass on some risk protection to customers and entice them to book their trip with less regard for how the weather might actually turn out. Most of the promotions we’ve covered have been protecting against rainfall, lack of sunshine […]

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itravel2000 says Let It Snow (again)

News 18th June 2009

For the third year running, Canada’s itravel2000 have launched another Let it Snow weather refund promotion. This promotion has become the largest travel promotion in Canadian history and had thousands of participants in the first two years and despite the fact that claims were made itravel2000 see it as worth repeating. The first year participants […]

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Weatherbill guarantees the sunshine in Victoria, BC

News 24th March 2009

Weatherbill have announced another of their Sunshine Guaranteed weather refund promotion deals. The latest deal is with the destination marketing organisation for Victoria, British Columbia; Tourism Victoria. The deal offers customers who book a vacation through Tourism Victoria for travel during April a $500 cash-back refund should they experience more than 1.25cm of rain in […]

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