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What is Travel Cancellation Insurance?

By Richard Day

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Published: 13Jul2009
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The world in an unstable place. As you know, you work very hard to make travel arrangements. You work on your itinerary for weeks. You go to the travel agent. You look online for information about the place you want to visit. Most likely, you will talk with your friends to ask them what they thought of the place they visited. Careful planning helps to ensure that you will have an enjoyable experience.

Now comes the scary music...remember the Jaws music...can you hear it?

You have spent money on deposits for hotels or B&Bs. You have spent money for airline tickets, cruise line tickets, tour operator deposits. What do you do if you can't go on your trip? Are you prepared to lose all this money? Try to get it back, if you'd like, but you might as well save your time.

So what types of things can go wrong?

* You, your spouse, or even your travel mate might get too sick to go on the trip.
* Perhaps one of your party gets sick while on your trip.
* There may be an earth quake, tsunami, or economic problems at your destination.
* What if there is a terrorist incident at the travel destination?
* If you have a medical problem while on your trip, who is going to interpret to the medical personnel for you?
* If your medical problem causes you to have to be repatriated back to the United States, who is going to pay for the medical evacuation or repatriation?
* The tour company you sent your deposit to may go out of business.

Many things can go wrong and do go wrong on a daily basis. If you travel very often, you will probably have some stories to tell.

There is insurance that will cover your trip of up to 30 consecutive days. They have people on the insurance company's staff that will be available 24-hours a day to answer questions, help you with travel emergencies, talk with medical personnel, and reimburse you for your deposits, and any covered non-refundable expenses. Medical evacuation can be extremely expensive, as you may surmise.

It is called Travel or Trip cancellation insurance. Believe me, it makes sense to protect yourself against any of these types of eventualities.

Surprisingly, it isn't very expensive. For example, you might be able to protect $1,500 of your trip for about $100. Look into protecting yourself from great disappointment with travel cancellation insurance.

To help protect you from losing money you've spent on travel, there is Patriot T.R.I.P. Patriot T.R.I.P. helps protect travelers who are unable to travel or are interrupted during their covered trip due to circumstances such as a sudden and unexpected illness or injury, death in the family, jury duty, job layoff, terrorism or the bankruptcy of the tour operator, cruise line or airline. Benefits also include coverage in the event of travel and baggage delay, lost baggage, emergency medical expenses, emergency medical evacuation and more. Other international health insurance

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