Stats crunched by Mozo Experts
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81Travel Insurance Policies
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37Insurance Companies
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9Award Categories
Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the Mozo Experts Choice Awards for Travel Insurance. To find out which travel insurance policies deliver the best value for Australian travellers for 2024, our team of expert judges assessed 81 international travel insurance policies from 37 different insurance companies. Only plans that offered cover for medical expenses resulting from COVID-19 in their cover were considered for the 2024 awards.
If you’re keen to tick some destinations off your bucket list this year, our winners list below outlines the plans that offer the best value and is a great place to begin your search for travel insurance.
Standout Winners
Travel Insurance Company of the Year
A special congratulations to World2Cover for taking out the coveted 2024 Mozo Experts Choice Travel Insurance Company of the Year Award for the second year in a row.
World2Cover picked up awards for both Exceptional Value and Exceptional Quality in Comprehensive Travel Insurance, proving they are a stand-out for many facets of cover.
Congratulations to:
World2Cover
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Top
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation cover
- Unlimited
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Top
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation cover
- Unlimited
Exceptional Quality Travel Insurance
Everyone has different priorities and budgets, and for some people knowing they have the highest level of cover possible is paramount when travelling internationally and are prepared to pay more for that cover. That’s why for this category our Judges compared a wide range of cover levels and features of travel insurance policies to find those that offer the most generous cover irrespective of price.
Congratulations to:
Cover-More Travel Insurance, Flight Centre, Kogan Insurance, NRMA Insurance, RAA, RAC, RACQ, RACT, RACV, Webjet, and World2Cover
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Top
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Comprehensive Plus
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $0 to Unlimited
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International Plus
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Optional Extra - Up to Unlimited
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Comprehensive Plan
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $2,000 to Unlimited
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Premium
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Comprehensive
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Premium
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Comprehensive
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Comprehensive
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Travel Safe Plus
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $0 to Unlimited
Exceptional Quality Annual Multi-Trip Travel Insurance
If you’re a frequent traveller, whether it be for personal or business purposes, a multi-trip travel insurance policy option might be a cost-effective way of ensuring you’re covered for every trip you take. For the Exceptional Quality Award, the judges assessed cover levels and inclusions for multi-trip policies and identified those that offer the best combination of generous cover limits, cover for a range of pre-existing medical conditions, and activities allowed.
Congratulations to:
Cover-More Travel Insurance, Flight Centre, Kogan Insurance, NRMA Insurance, and Webjet
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Comprehensive Annual Multi-Trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $2,000 to Unlimited
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Comprehensive Plus
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $0 to Unlimited
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Travel Safe Plus
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $0 to Unlimited
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International Plus
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Optional Extra - Up to Unlimited
Exceptional Value Medical Only Travel Insurance
If avoiding a costly overseas medical bill is your main concern, Medical Only coverage might be a suitable cover option. To be considered in this category, a policy just had to offer unlimited medical cover and unlimited covid cover. The following two policies were the most exceptional value on average over six destinations.
Congratulations to:
Australia Post and Southern Cross Travel Insurance
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Basic
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- No
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International Medical Only
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- No
Exceptional Value Essential Travel Insurance
For those looking for cover at the lowest cost, but including some luggage and cancellation coverage, the Exceptional Value Essential award lists some great options. To be considered in this category a policy had to offer unlimited medical cover,unlimited covid medical cover as well as at least $2,500 cancellation cover and $2,000 for luggage cover.
The following policies were the most exceptional value on average over six destinations.
Congratulations to:
Freely, Tick Travel Insurance, Travel Insurance Saver, Travel Protect, WAS Insurance, and Zoom
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International Travel Insurance
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $5,000 limit per policy with option to increase limit
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Bare Essentials
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- No
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Explorer
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose up to $40,000
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Discovery Ultimate
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose up to $40,000
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Standard
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $5,000
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Standard
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $25,000
Exceptional Value Comprehensive Travel Insurance
For jet-setting Aussies wanting more comprehensive protection, the winners of this category offered the extras you could want when travelling the globe In addition to unlimited medical cover, criteria to be considered for this award included at least $7,500 of luggage cover and $15,000 cancellation cover per person. In case of Covid claims unlimited medical cover, at least $2,500 of additional expenses cover and $2,500 cancellation cover.
If you’re someone who travels frequently, whether for business or pleasure, and you are looking for the best value annual policy, this is the place to begin your search.
Congratulations to:
Chubb Australia, Freely, InsureandGo, Tick Travel Insurance, and World2Cover
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International Travel Insurance
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $5,000 limit per policy with option to increase limit
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Top
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Prestige Single Trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $20,000
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Gold
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Top
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $20,000
Exceptional Value Ski Travel Insurance
With many travel insurance policies there’s an extra charge if you want to be covered for snow activities. To qualify for this award, policies had to include unlimited medical cover, and at least $7,500 of luggage cover and $15,000 cancellation cover and in case of Covid claims unlimited medical cover, at least $2,500 of additional expenses cover and $2,500 cancellation cover. The cost assessment was based on a family of four travelling to New Zealand for two weeks.
Congratulations to:
Freely, Medibank, and Tick Travel Insurance
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International Travel Insurance
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $5,000 limit per policy with option to increase limit
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Single Trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Top
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $20,000
Exceptional Value Cruise Travel Insurance
Not all travel insurance policies will cover you if you’re on the open ocean so you’ll need to get cruise cover for peace of mind. The criteria for this award included unlimited medical cover, $7,500 luggage cover and $15,000 cancellation cover and in case of Covid claims unlimited medical cover, at least $2,500 of additional expenses cover and $2,500 cancellation cover.
Congratulations to:
AllClear, Chubb Australia, Qantas, and World Nomads
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Explorer Plan
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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International Comprehensive
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Prestige Single Trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- $20,000
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Gold Plus
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $0 to Unlimited
Exceptional Value Annual Multi-Trip Travel Insurance
If you’re someone who travels frequently, whether for business or pleasure, taking out an annual policy can mean that you’re never without cover, and really cost-effective too.
To assess annual travel insurance policies the judges collected prices for a single person travelling worldwide or to the USA, for up to 30 days at a time. The policies also had to offer minimum cover levels of unlimited medical cover, and at least $7,500 of luggage cover and $15,000 cancellation cover and in case of Covid claims unlimited medical cover, at least $2,500 of additional expenses cover and $2,500 cancellation cover.
Congratulations to:
ahm, Medibank, NRMA Insurance, Qantas, and Southern Cross Travel Insurance
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Multi-Trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $2,500 to Unlimited
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Annual Multi-Trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $3,000 to Unlimited
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Annual Multi-trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
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Comprehensive Annual Multi-Trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Choose $2,000 to Unlimited
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Annual Multi Trip
- overseas hospital
- Unlimited
- cancellation_fees
- Unlimited
What are the Mozo Experts Choice Awards?
Now in their Twelfth year, the Mozo Experts Choice Awards present an opportunity to recognise products in the market we believe offer great value to Australians.
For the 2024 Travel Insurance awards, our Experts assessed 81 international travel insurance policies from 37 different insurance companies head to head.
“With travel well and truly on the cards for many Australians after the covid hiatus, it’s more important than ever to shop around for a great deal on travel insurance,” said Peter Marshall, Mozo Experts Choice Awards judge.
“If you are looking for a great value travel insurance policy, or a policy that offers all the extras, you can be confident that the winning policies will have you covered for the things you need.”
For full details on how we crunched the numbers, the awards criteria and how we determined the winners, see the 2024 Mozo Experts Choice Awards for Travel Insurance methodology report.
Our Expert Judges
We couldn’t have a name like the Mozo Experts Choice Awards without a dedicated and experienced team of product data analysts at the helm. Combined they have decades of experience behind them. Meet them below.
FAQs
What’s the Judging Criteria for the Mozo Experts Choice Awards?
Running since 2014, the Mozo Experts Choice Awards recognise products that deliver exceptional value or benefits to consumers. See our 2024 Mozo Experts Choice Awards for Travel Insurance methodology report for detailed information on how we performed product comparisons and determined the final winners for 2024.
Did you compare all travel insurance providers in the market for these awards?
For the 2024 Travel Insurance Awards we only included travel insurance policies that included cover for COVID-19 medical expenses. In carrying out the Mozo Experts Choice Awards for Travel Insurance 2024, 81 international travel insurance policies from 37 different insurance companies met this criteria.
Any provider we review must be available at the time of our analysis and any offers included must be available to the general public on the provider’s website.
What types of travel insurance are there?
Generally travel insurance providers will offer four different types of cover, these are:
- Domestic travel insurance for travel around Australia
- Basic international travel insurance, usually only medical cover
- Comprehensive international travel insurance which includes medical, cancellations, luggage and more
- Multi-trip international travel insurance, if you travel more than once a year
A few providers may offer more specific cover for things like going on a cruise, travelling a student or in a group. Some may even provide cover specifically tailored towards seniors, skiing trips and Australians who are already overseas.
How can I find the best travel insurance?
No one travel insurance policy will be the ‘best’ for everyone. People have different reasons for travelling, budgets and needs. That said, our Mozo Experts Choice Travel Insurance winners list is a great place to start. Shopping around can help you find travel insurance that works best for you. Are you worried about being covered for medical expenses? Or are you more concerned about lost luggage? Once you have an idea of the cover you need, then you can compare policies, you can also see our guide on choosing the Best Travel Insurance.
Who are the Mozo Experts?
The Mozo Experts Choice Awards are overseen by AJ Duncanson and Peter Marshall. AJ is Mozo’s Data Director, a data scientist and actuary who has worked in financial services and product comparison for over 30 years. Peter has been in the industry even longer, and as Mozo's Financial Services Specialist he contributes to the team of analysts that gather information and compare products every day, and oversees the calculations and data quality used for producing the Mozo Experts Choice Awards.
I work for a winning provider, how do we promote our win?
Please get in touch with us to discuss by email should you have any queries.