Read This Before You Avail Insurance
While travel insurance is selling like a hot commodity due to threats of terrorism
and natural calamities, there is indeed a catch in this picture.Most policies offer only very limited protection, if any, should you want to cancel a trip because you're afraid to go.
It's just a shame that your policy is unable to cover your worries toward possible bomb scares or events involving liquid explosives.
There is also no coverage on your worries if a hurricane might hit your favorite beach.
Do you feel any trepidation over a major airline strike disabling your from your doctor's college sendoff? Well purchasing a travel insurance policy now won't be of any help.
Travel insurance guarantees you a money return even for the portions of a trip that you cannot normally reimburse such as the airline tickets, hotel deposits or if you find yourself in a situation where you can no longer go on your trip, then your insurance will surely help cover the cost of food or hotel rooms when stranded.
These insurance plans cover for any medical needs when the person gets sick while abroad or is in need of medical evaluation.
This is important since not all hospitals in different countries honor the insurance plans of foreign travelers. But it has tons of limitations.
However, there is no coverage on disasters that boost policy sales. Since many insurance programs do not have any protection on terrorism, many people are forced to be meticulous in buying.
Six policies listed by a single travel insurance firm contain terrorism insurance, for example. The comprehensive policies that do have it account for 80 percent of sales.
But the thing is, before the policy holders can avail of their reimbursement, the terrorism must happen first within 30 days of their scheduled day of departure in the place that they're supposed to go to.
If you become scared of a recent London bombing and you no longer want to go on a Paris or Manchester trip, your insurance won't be of much help.
The reality is that there's no coverage for fear. It's the fear that drives sales, and that is something that these policies, the vast majority of them don't protect.
Another catch is that you may find yourself so unfortunate too, on issues like terrorism if you weren't able to purchase your insurance within 15 days of when you booked your travel plan.
It is simply great knowing that many insurance companies were true to their word as they shouldered the costs on hotels and meals after travelers got stuck in London earlier this month due to failed attempt to blow up planes there with wet explosives.
If the tragedy didn't strike, the policies won't pay if you wanted to withdraw your purchase.
Like any insurance, the cost of a travel insurance policy will vary depending on how expensive your trip is and what you want covered.
You can buy a comprehensive policy with coverage for cancellations, delays that leave you stranded, lost luggage, flight accident, emergency medical and medical evacuations, or you can buy just the specific insurance you want.
Two travel insurance companies, cancel for any reason policies that reimburse 75 percent of a trip's cost if you decide not to go.
When pitted against the regular policies, these are higher by 40 percent.
In America alone, the US Travel Insurance Association divulges remarkable data that they've sold over 17 million insurance packages per year and with this, the doubled growth of annual income has dramatically changed since September 11, 2001.
One should always remember that in many of the major troubles encountered, no rebooking fee will be demanded by airlines, cruise lines and hotels.
You may still be entitled to relief even without any insurance coverage.
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