Solidary holidays thanks to the International Volunteer Card The Travellers Blog (blog)
29.08.11
Everyone working on the Volunteer Card team has worked on overseas humanitarian projects in 50+ countries combined! That’s a lot of experience so you can bet they know what other travellers need while travelling abroad in often unstable countries.
This travel insurance coverage isn’t like other insurance plans. You don’t pay a daily rate, rather a flat fee which covers you for an entire year on trips up to 180 days in length. Pretty cool isn’t it? The Multi-Trip travel insurance is one of the biggest benefits of the card, especially if you plan to volunteer on trips a few times a year. The program is backed by Travel Guard, the largest travel insurance company in the USA. Plan prices do not increase with the age of volunteers, everyone pays the same fee.
Calling the International Volunteer Card number, volunteers can access assistance 24/7 from at home and abroad.
What is covered?
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Most people take holiday insurance travel policies prior to their flights to foreign countries to cushion their families should they die in the event of a plane crash and/or other assorted mishaps. Being a traveller may mean that your typical insurance cover in your home country may not necessarily cover you while abroad. This situation should certainly remind you of the need to take up a holiday travel insurance policy so as to insure your stay abroad.
The cover for tourists is usually an international holiday insurance policy covering health as well as the other unforeseen dangers. Increasing numbers of people are taking holidays abroad in order to experience different cultures, beaches, wildlife etc. Recent statistics show that almost 5 million people in the US are covered under the multi holiday travel insurance policy and not the other normal policies simply because they take several trips abroad every year. In most countries, even the smallest medical aid is not accessible to non tax payers or other foreigners. With holiday travel cover you can easily gain access to treatment from any medical facility while abroad, and you will also have the support of 24 hour multi lingual emergency assistance..
While on visits abroad, chances are that you will not be entitled to the normal benefits as provided in your home country. This effectively means that it is not just you but also your entire family that’ll remain uninsured. The plan can be modified to cover your family for the whole time you are abroad whether they accompany you there or not.
The first main factor in helping you arrange a proper holiday insurance travel policy is the duration of stay in the foreign land. Two weeks or less may need a simple plan but a month and over will require a more complex and pricier policy. The kind of country you are travelling to matters; factors here include availability of emergency evacuation facilities, healthcare facilities and the like. Some holiday travel insurance firms will not insure your stay in conflict-ridden countries. You will also need to know about the payment plan for this policy, if it is renewable, if 24/7/365 assistance will be available, and so forth.
