Category: Travel Protection guidelines
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Trip cover and Travel medical insurance – 2 key components of Comprehensive Cover
In this article, we explain how travel insurance is made up of two key components which we call travel medical insurance and trip cover. Learn how what makes up the best comprehensive insurance cover for your trip. Understand what you need to know before you buy and what influences the cost of cover. Learn what…
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Adventure Sports Travel Insurance – 9 Mistakes That Could threaten your cover.
South Africans are by nature, adventuresome and sports mad. It is therefore not uncommon that many South African ask us if we have adventure sports travel insurance which they can participate in whilst on holiday. Several of our policies have adventure sports cover but there are certain activities that are not covered and with some…
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Travel insurance with gadget cover – ways you can fail
On any policy the most important cover is medical cover and most travel insurance policies will focus on this and provide good cover. But what about a policy with gadget cover for expensive items such as cameras, laptops and other electronic goods? It is important to read your policy and not assume you have cover…
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Insolvency Travel insurance – What if your airline or travel agent goes Bang and you’re stranded?
Until recently, insolvency cover has been rare in the travel industry. Hence, many travellers have had no protection from the insolvency of a travel provider such as an airline or hotel group. For example, we have seen the difficulties of 1time, Velvet Sky and other airlines that barely got off the ground yet took a lot…
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9 Dangers of Free Travel Insurance. Is it Adequate?
With our busy lives it is convenient to think that little effort is needed before you’re travel abroad because you have free medical aid or credit card travel insurance. Does your membership of your medical aid or using a certain credit card to purchase your airline ticket really give you adequate travel protection when you…
