Raise your hand if you’ve used your credit card’s complimentary travel insurance on an overseas trips. Keep that hand up if you activated that service before leaving. Nope? You’re not alone.
Ah, Valentine’s Day. While loved up couples are looking forward to romantic evenings of candlelit dinners and shared desserts, many single Aussies are just one more social media post away from a night of sombre self reflection.
You’ve heard of millennials, yuppies, DINKs and perhaps even HENRYs, but new research may well have unveiled a novel class of young, cashed-up, Australians who just love to travel - flashpackers.
If there’s one stereotype that certainly rings true about millennials it’s their love for overseas travel - a cliche perhaps only topped by a love for documenting their international adventures on social media.
Australian jetsetters flying overseas for a vacation this summer have been urged to avoid the trap of settling for ‘add-on’ travel insurance, following a recent mystery shop which revealed staggering markups of up to 205% between different providers.
According to a recent post by Lonely Planet, when it comes to travelling, cruises have become the next biggest thing.
Australians busy making their summer travel plans may need to alter their itineraries, with today’s announcement that Air New Zealand has just been named Airline of the Year for 2018 by safety and product rating website AirlineRatings.com.
Didn’t your mother ever tell you it’s better to be safe than sorry? Apparently not, according to the Survey of Australian Travel Insurance Behaviour (2017) report, which found that nearly 1 million Aussies travel without insurance.
Aussie travel-lovers will be vying for bargains when Click Frenzy’s 24 hour ‘Travel Frenzy’ goes live at 7PM AEST tonight, offering thousands of dollars worth of savings from over 100 travel brands and retailers.
If you're weighing up whether it’s worth covering yourself with travel insurance next time you head overseas, some newly released figures from InsureandGo may make that decision easier for you.