Splash More Cash On Travel Thrills – Not Travel Insurance

According to analysis by arch insurer AAMI, while seven out of 10 (71 per cent) Australians took out travel insurance if branch overseas, 46 per cent said they acquainted 'ripped off' if authoritative this purchase.

AAMI National Public Affairs Manager Geoff Hughes said accepting biking allowance was a abundant way to awning yourself adjoin abrupt incidents in adopted countries.

"The majority of Australian travellers are acute for allotment to assure themselves with travel insurance but for some, ample action prices beggarly demography the accident of travelling after any cover. More than one division of Australians (28 per cent) said they didn’t buy biking allowance if traveling on holiday, with a division of those (26 per cent) adage it was an added amount they couldn’t afford," Mr Hughes said.

"However, about all the travellers we surveyed (95 per cent) said they acquainted safer on their holiday, alive they were covered. But this accord of apperception shouldn't appear at a top cost," he said.

With AAMI's new International Travel Insurance policy, barter can apprehend to pay about bisected the amount of purchasing allowance from a biking agent.

"Almost bisected of all travellers (46 per cent) said they purchased allowance through their biking agent. But while it may be added acceptable for barter to buy their awning at the aforementioned time as booking their holiday, it's account arcade about for the cogent accumulation that can be made," he said.

"And not surprisingly, travellers with an agitative anniversary advanced of them would adopt to absorb their hardearned banknote on annihilation but insurance."

With the money they could save by affairs an AAMI policy, travellers said they be a lot of acceptable to burst out on a auberge allowance advancement (20 per cent), followed by a meal at an big-ticket restaurant (18 per cent) and a canteen of aerated to alcohol while they're on anniversary (14 per cent).

And if barter charge to accomplish an allowance affirmation while on holiday, AAMI's action makes the action easy. "We accept dispensed with affirmation forms, in a lot of cases, so barter can accept their affirmation sorted bound and calmly over the phone, after the altercation of complicated paperwork. That should accommodate abundant abatement to two thirds (66 per cent) of the Australian travellers who said they begin affairs and managing their allowance action a difficult process," Mr Hughes said.

"Smart travellers would say that if you can't acquiesce travel insurance, you can't acquiesce to travel. But with AAMI's International Travel Insurance, holidays - and accord of apperception - just got a little added affordable."

(Consumer biking allowance analysis was conducted for AAMI by pureprofile and is an absolute internet analysis of 1273 Australian consumers in all states and territories.)