The Times Top Ten Travel Insurance Questions
The TimesOnline put together an interesting article on the top ten travel insurance questions which are commonly asked by travellers, the most popular questions included:
- Travel insurance for pregnant women
- Can you insure against holiday hurricanes
- Over 70’s travel insurance
- Gap year travel insurance
- Insurance to drive outside the EU
- Ski insurance - the pitfalls
- Insuring against missed flights
- Can I trust hotels with my luggage
- Insurance to cover the hidden extras
- Off-Road insurance
The thing with booking a travel insurance product is all the small print. As highlighted on this site on many occasions, there are many different travel insurance products, which all have varying costs; The majority of travel insurance products offer travellers different benefits.
The common questions raised are obvious points raised by travellers; it is fair to say information requested by travellers is not always forthcoming on corporate websites. Should the travel insurance companies be paying further attention to this and making further information available to potential buyers of their policies?
There must be literally thousands of bespoke questions asked by travellers with regard travel insurance, surely it makes sense for these quirky questions to be documented in order to allow people to find relevant answers to pertinent questions.
Written by MrCrip on October 6th, 2007 with
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