TL;DR
- With this week’s heatwave headlines making clients twitchy about hot-destination trips, here’s a pre-departure message you can send today, built from real advice in The Independent.
- Hydration wins: room-temperature drinks over ice-cold, electrolyte sachets from any pharmacy, frozen grapes as a snack.
- Pacing matters: early starts, slower middays, siestas welcomed rather than fought.
- Clothing and kit: light-coloured linen, a shawl for sun and sand, a hat, sun cream, sunglasses, and a compact hand fan.
- Air con isn’t a free win: it can dry out sinuses, so pair it with a little humidity.
- Five minutes to copy into a template, and every client flying somewhere hot this month gets it before they go.
A Little Context for Summer 2026
If any of your clients have a hot-destination trip landing soon, this is the week to send them something useful. With the 2026 heatwave running across Europe and North Africa, most have booked sun without a thought for coping with 40C on arrival. That’s where you come in. A short, warm heads-up from their agent turns a sweaty first day into a smooth one, and it takes five minutes to build once and reuse all summer.
The advice below comes from The Independent, written by Tamara Davison, a British writer in her second year living in Dahab on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. She’s written up the daily habits that keep her comfortable in relentless heat, and almost everything she says travels neatly into a client conversation.
A Closer Look
Davison’s first lesson is about pace. She writes that days start early, with any exercise done at sunrise before the heat builds, then the middle of the day slows right down. Siestas are welcomed rather than resisted, and movement generally becomes more relaxed. For a client used to cramming a city break with back-to-back plans, that reframe alone is gold… rest in the heat isn’t laziness, it’s strategy.
Then there’s hydration, where she has a few counterintuitive tips. She prefers room-temperature drinks to ice-cold ones, because the body works harder to cool an icy drink down. She keeps rehydration and electrolyte sachets from the pharmacy on hand, freezes electrolyte drinks in ice cube trays, and snacks on frozen grapes and berries. Good news? Every one of those is cheap, portable, and easy for a client to sort before they fly or once they land.
What to Tell Clients About Kit and Comfort
On what to wear and carry, Davison keeps it simple. She favours light-coloured linen and carries a shawl or sarong for both sun and sand protection. Her kit list runs to a sun hat, sun cream, sunglasses, and a hand fan, which she rates for being compact and genuinely cooling. For restless, too-hot nights she dabs ayurvedic oil on her temples before sleep.
Air conditioning gets a thoughtful mention too, and this is the bit clients rarely think about. Davison notes AC can dry out your sinuses, so she limits how much she uses it and runs an oil diffuser to add humidity back. For anyone without AC, she suggests creating a breeze and hanging a damp towel in a doorway, instincts drawn from heat in Jordan, Mexico, and Australia. I know a client’s holiday is their week off, not an industry story, but a two-line note about staying cool is the sort of small touch they remember.
Where This Helps
None of this needs a product attached to it. Save the pacing, hydration and kit points above as a template in your CRM or notes app, credit Tamara Davison and The Independent if you’re quoting her directly, and send it the week before anyone flies somewhere hot. Build it once this week, and it’s ready for every hot-destination client on your books for the rest of the summer… a heatwave headline turned into a reason for clients to feel properly looked after.
