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Many business travellers only think about their flights, hotels, rental cars etc. But they won’t think about their personal valuables such as laptop, documents, phones, money, etc. Assume that you lost some of your items while travelling or after reaching your destination. What will you do? Do you have solution for this? Don’t worry; travel insurance is the solution which will protect you from this loss.
Travel insurance offers features like trip cancellation, loss of luggage, cancelled flights etc. Along with this policy if you include medical insurance policy with travel insurance, it can be beneficial for you because there are some places where you cannot afford the medical treatment. For example, US is a place where the travellers cannot overlook because of the rising cost of medical treatment. If travellers are not having any medical cover then they are lumped with costly bills.
However most travel insurance plans include medical evacuation, but it can be sold on a standalone basis for individuals and groups. A business travel insurance plan can also help in assessing your medical condition; provide translation or even legal help.
Business persons who are travelling must take travel insurance when they travel on business because according to recent reports of The Travel Industry Association of America, business travellers are taking approximately five work related trips per year.
Business owners should make sure that their employees are covered by a comprehensive travel insurance policy that will cover medical and evacuation costs. Such expenses could cripple an employee’s finances and he or she may look to the employer to cover these medical costs, especially if they are on company business.
If single or more than one person is travelling for business then employers should purchase a single or group travel insurance policy. If employees are travelling more than one time per year, then you should buy multi-trip travel insurance plan which is the most cost saving travel insurance plan. Even a group travel insurance plan can also offer great savings either on single or multi-trip basis.
It is necessary that business travelers should look for a plan that provides them coverage for the many ‘what ifs’ that can occur in travel today. An annual plan is likely most beneficial for those traveling on business and definitely a plan that covers or provides medical expense, emergency and security evacuation coverage. Here trip cancellation is less likely to be important.