Travel insurance specialists vs insurance brokers

When you are shopping for travel insurance, it’s natural to look for the best deal. Some people will extend that search to insurance brokers.

Insurance brokers are very useful people because they understand how to arrange one-off insurance. They are very skilled at finding insurance for business’ that need many different types of insurance, or arranging cover in circumstances where no ‘off-the-shelf’ insurance product exists because a situation is so exotic or risky.

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North America including Hawaii, South America, Central America, Middle East, Arctic & Antarctic Circles.
Europe and the African continent (North Africa, Southern Africa and Egypt)
United Kingdom and Asia (UK, Ireland, Asia, Japan and the Indian sub-continent).
Tonga, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands
New Zealand, Fiji, Norfolk Island and Bali
for travel within Australia only

Not sure which region to choose?

Covers you and your dependent children or grandchildren under the age of 21 at the date of policy issue who are travelling with you.

Covers you and your travel partner named in the Certificate of Insurance and your dependent children or grandchildren under the age of 21 at the date of policy issue who are travelling with you.

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Hints & Tips:

When making the region selection, choose the region where you will spend the majority of your trip and this will also cover you for all other areas you travel to.

For example, if you are spending 3 days in Singapore, 2 weeks in the UK and 4 weeks in Europe, select 'Europe' as your destination and you will be covered in Singapore and the UK also.

Travel Insurance Direct has done all the work for you

But few insurance brokers are travel insurance specialists because travel insurance is often cheaper than many other types of cover and brokers cannot afford to deal with these low value policies.

Travel Insurance Direct is a travel insurance specialist. We have already done all the work to find the best cover for your travel needs. Because we are specialists, we have researched the most important items to cover and have created comprehensive products. And because we sell travel insurance every day, we have economies of scale that are not possible for brokers. That means more cost-effective travel insurance!


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