Travel Insurance And Trip Cancellation Insurance From Travel Insured International

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New Worldwide Trip Protector Plans Will Boost Sales and save travelers money!
A recent survey with the monthly newsletter to Travel Insured International’s travel selling partners, including Conquest Travel Insurance, has returned overwhelmingly positive evaluations of the new Worldwide Trip Protector program, including Worldwide Trip Protector, Trip Protector Gold and Trip Protector Lite & Lite Expanded.

Why is all this travel insurance talk relevant to Y-O-U?

One of the new plans includes a provision that “Kids Are Free”.  That one provision will help lots of traveling families save on their vacations.  We all know how unpredictable things are for families.  What if someone gets measles, mumps, chicken pox, a broken bone, or nearly any of a hundred things that kids get into.  That is worth the cost of trip cancellation insurance and if kids are free, it’s even better.

If you also have a golf game planned on your cruise like we usually do, you can also buy golf travel insurance.  it’s a good idea when you are looking at trip travel insurance to consider protecting your outing at Cozumel Country Club.  Of course, my travel agent wife never lets us leave without trip cancellation insurance and we always use Travel Insured International………always!

Conquest Travel Insurance is busy getting the word out on this type of trip travel insurance.  Agents think it is a great idea also.

A solid 88.4% of responding agents said they rated the new program either “good” or “outstanding” with the expectation that the plans will increase their trip protection sales. New features and options in the plans proved most popular, with 86% of respondents saying “Kids are Free” will increase or “strongly impact” sales; 76% saying the “Cancel for Work Reasons” option will build sales and 68.6% saying the “Cancel for Any Reason” option will build sales.

In similar results most of surveyed agents said the redesigned, signature Worldwide Trip Protector plan will “sell well” or be a “best seller”, while three fourths said the same about Trip Protector Lite & Lite Expanded, and two thirds said the same about Worldwide Trip Protector Gold. Agents gave a top score of 98% for either “good” or “excellent” in evaluating how well-informed and helpful Travel Insured’s sales and customer service people are in presenting the new WTP program.

How can you use this information?  Well, the next time you plan a cruise or a trip, remember you read this information somewhere and ask about it when you buy travel insurance.  It’s a real money saver.

How does this work?  Just click on the banner link on this page and purchase your travel insurance here with the above discussed provisions included.

What if you used this information?  Great, you just saved money on your next cruise.  Way to go.

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Airline Service Cuts Increase Need for Travelers to Consider Worldwide Trip Protector Plans

Soaring fuel costs in the VERY recent past have forced major carriers to cut their flight schedules on some routes. What does that mean to you as a traveler?  It’s also bad weather season coming on, what effect will that have on y0our travel?

Here’s some facts: American in late May announced plans to cut 12% of its flights and lay off thousands of workers. Hawaiian Airlines has announced 13% fewer flights to Hawaii this year . Fuel-related expenses have already eliminated some smaller carriers, such as Aloha and ATA, and are threatening others seeking new financing to cover operating costs.

What if you have a trip planned and the airline cuts that flight without you knowing about it, learning about it time, or just not notifying you?  Are you still out the money for your cruise or resort vacation?  What about all the hassle of finding another flight at the last minute?

As a traveler, you may face the possibility that a weather or equipment-related flight delay can result in a longer airport delay due to fewer available flights to many destinations. Could this stop or delay a cruise? Well, it probably won’t stop the cruise ship, but you might not be aboard.  Yes,  it sure could and you need to be protected from that.  It could ruin a golf vacation and for this you would need golf travel insurance.

A delayed bag may also take longer to be reunited with travelers at their final destination.

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Again, if it’s your golf clubs that are delayed, you might need golf travel insurance or at the very least trip cancellation insurance.  Worldwide Trip Protector and Trip Protector Gold are trip travel insurance packages that include $200 per insured per day in Trip Delay coverage when the delay is six hours or more due to a covered reason and $300 or $500 (for Gold) in Baggage Delay coverage for necessary expenses after a baggage delay of 12 or more hours. Both plans include up to $750 in Missed Connection coverage. Worldwide Trip Protector Lite includes up to $100 per day in Trip Delay, up to $300 to cover a Baggage Delay of 24 hours, and $300 in Missed Connection coverage. Choose Trip Protector Lite Expanded for increased Baggage Delay coverage of up to $500. You’ll be glad you did the next time you are stuck in an airport with an extended wait for the next flight.

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Travel Insured Responds to MSNBC Article Questioning Travel Insurance

Travel Insured responded to a summer 2008 article on the MSNBC News Web site that posed the question, “Is Travel Insurance Worth the Extra Money?” and then gave a negative answer. “In rare instances it is a good deal, but it often duplicates existing coverage,” the sub-headline stated. Travel Insured emailed MSNBC writer Laura Coffey recommending she consult the U.S. State Dept. Web site for the government’s advice regarding medical insurance.

Did they just get it wrong or was it a young inexperienced reporter?

In my many years in the newspaper business, I saw lots of young reporters who just didn’t do enough good research to get the facts correct.  Whose fault is that.  Well, it’s the fault of the editor and the reporter and the publisher.  All three!  A good experienced newspaper editor with a little common sense could easily tell this was not a complete factual story.  It had some facts.  But, it had left out some critical, pertinent information, and it ‘got by’ somebody with gray hair.  They just missed it.  An experienced copy editor at a newspaper would have questioned that story in an instant.  Apparently they don’t scrutinize as much at Network TV stations.

Here’s an example:

Contrary to Coffey’s statement that “your medical insurance may be valid in other countries.” the State Dept. says “U.S. medical insurance is generally not accepted outside the U.S., nor do the Social Security Medicare and Medicaid programs provide coverage…”

Is that clear enough for anyone but a cub reporter?

A simple fact check could have avoided embarrassing the young reporter and the news station.  However, I sense that MSNBC was looking more for sensationalism rather than facts in this case.  In any case, it didn’t help me believe much else they have to say….at least for a while.

Travel Insured International also cited experts, such as former Consumer Reports travel editor Ed Perkins, whose research disagreed with the MSNBC opinion that “airlines reimburse lost baggage.”  Perkins, in his SmarterTravel.com article of December 2006, reported that airlines find ways to avoid reimbursing clients for lost bags and added, “government rules tend to protect airlines, not passengers.”

I’ve seen lots go wrong and been very glad to have helped provide trip travel insurance to clients.  You just never know when they will need to take advantage of trip cancellation insurance.  I’ve even seen clients use golf travel insurance during an ice storm when a couple couldn’t get to the airport.

Travel Insured also suggested writer Coffey consult published accounts of the 2007 Valentine’s Day ice storm, and travel agents’ customer experiences, to learn that travelers often do not receive refunds after a natural disaster, contrary to MSNBC’s opinion that “you are likely to get a refund if your trip gets cancelled” due to a natural disaster. We had clients who were protected during that ice storm and we can report they were very grateful we offered them Travel Insured Worldwide Trip Protector to save their cruise when they simply could not get to the airport.  It was a lifesaver.

Sorry MSNBC, you missed that one…..too!

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Did you know you can buy travel insurance and cancel your trip safely for any reason. Or for work related reasons….or students can buy insurance for travel they can cancel for any reason. Not a bad idea these days when work comes first if you want to keep your job.

Survey results from the monthly newsletter to Travel Insured International’s travel selling partners, including your very own Conquest Travel Insurance, has returned overwhelmingly positive evaluations of the new policies that offer these options. These are the “best seller” products that most folks who go on cruises and other types of trips purchase. The Worldwide Trip protector is the policy we most often sell. It’s a comprehensive product that many travel insurance companies offer a variation of.  As with other companies, you have to specify you want the features, but it’s really good to know they are available.

There are lots of good travel insurance companies out there, but as we stated in a previous post, we like Travel Insured International because of the people who work there. When I found out the employees volunteer for community activities such as Relay for Life and to help fight Cystic Fibroses and Arthritis, then I knew anyone I recommended to them would be dealing with “good people”. I already know they offer very competitive prices because I spend my own money with them.

I like to go a couple of times a year on golf related cruises. I have both rented clubs and taken my own clubs. One thing I try to never go without is trip travel insurance, trip cancellation insurance, and golf travel insurance. I’ve played five different courses in Hawaii, and also love Cozumel Country club, including the Iguanas.

Here’s the results of that survey:

A solid 88.4% of more than 50 responding agents said they rated the new program either “good” or “outstanding” with the expectation that the plans will increase their trip protection sales. New features and options in the plans proved most popular, with 86% of respondents saying “Kids are Free” will increase or “strongly impact” sales; 76% saying the “Cancel for Work Reasons” option will build sales and 68.6% saying the “Cancel for Any Reason” option will build sales. In similar results, 86.3% of surveyed agents said the redesigned, signature Worldwide Trip Protector plan will “sell well” or be a “best seller”, while 77.6% said the same about Trip Protector Lite & Lite Expanded, and 67.3% said the same about Worldwide Trip Protector old. Agents gave a top score of 98% for either “good” or “excellent” in evaluating how well-informed and helpful Travel Insured International sales and customer service people are in presenting the new WTP program.

Yes, I take my own clubs and I take my own golf travel insurance.

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