Risk Management and Liability Insurance


Regardless of how well you plan there is always some degree of risk to the sponsoring body of a tour.  The tour operators carry their own liability coverage.  If you are the tour sponsor you will need to limit your risk by evaluating every element, the coach driver, meal service, accommodation quality and history, etc.  Keep your activities in line with the physical limitations of the participant.  Above all make sure that you have liability coverage insurance - either a policy that you have specifically arranged or one that is provided under the umbrella of another organization like Silos and Smokestacks, Festivals of Iowa of some other entity.  In any event make sure that you “have it in writing!!!!”