What is travel insurance?

Posted by on August 20, 2009

Travel is a form of adventure, which involves a lot of risks too. So you need to be careful and should take necessary measures to ensure safety in your travel. One such measure is travel insurance. It minimizes the financial risks, which may occur during your travel. It gives protection against the following issues:

Trip Cancellation or Interruption

Medical emergency

Events like delay or missed departure

Delayed arrival or Loss of baggage

Passport loss and legal expenses

Bankruptcy, Loss of cash, or any financial loss

Pre existing medical condition

Whether you are looking for a single or multiple trips; short or long trip; one time or frequent trip; plane tourist or adventure trip, travel insurance provides back up for the unforeseen dangers. Travel insurance companies generally cover ticket reimbursement and medical expenses, involved in a journey. Trip ticket pay back occurs when the trip is canceled or interrupted due to the bad health of the traveler or serious condition of any of his family members or in case of trip delayed and baggage delayed. On the other hand, medical expanses take care of the injuries including hospitalization during the trip.

There are several travel insurance plans for different people.

Student plan: this plan generally covers a week or a semester or a year of travel. Some plans even support the students, studying in abroad.

Backpackers plan: this plan is especially designed for those people, who travel extensively. This plan sometimes covers trekking and road related trips.

Over 65 plan: this plan is introduced for senior citizens.

Annual plan: generally businessmen, who travel frequently during the year, adapt this plan.

Family plan: this plan covers the entire family.

Extreme sports plan: Some insurance companies provide insurance cover for adventure sports like bunjee jumping, jetskiing, jetboating, parascending white water rafting, windsurfing, yatch racing and scuba diving. These travel insurance companies provide the insurance services at extra costs.

Ski/snowboarding Plan: this plan is especially meant for winter sports, offered by hotels and resorts in mountains.

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