Whether you’re jetting off to a tropical paradise, road-tripping with the kids, or taking a solo trip to reclaim your sanity this summer, there’s one travel essential you don’t want to forget: travel insurance.
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A few days ago, I recounted a story about my colleague Emma and her superannuation comeback. It turns out Emma is full of stories, this time about travel insurance quotes for a family holiday. You’d think travel insurance would be pretty straightforward compared to something like super - and in most cases it is.
Are you an Aussie full-timer dreaming of more time off without burning through your annual leave balance? You need to master the art of leave maximisation.
The latest travel insurance survey from The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) and DFAT makes for some very interesting reading. As someone who’s been covering travel insurance for our website Mozo for over 10 years, the fact that 1 in 7 Aussie travellers are still heading overseas uninsured surprises me. I really thought the mantra ‘if you can’t afford travel insurance, then you can’t afford to travel’ had well and truly taken hold.
If international travel is on your agenda for the remainder of 2025 or even 2026, so too should be the search for top value travel insurance.
School holidays are nearing and end of year holiday planning is now in full swing, so if you’re travelling overseas in the coming months, getting your travel insurance early is a smart money move.
According to the latest release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australians took more than 12.3 million overseas trips in the year to June 2025. And do you know what that means? It means, travel-wise, we’ve finally put COVID squarely in the rear-view mirror.
As winter sets in, Australians are embracing the opportunity to travel abroad, seeking warmer climates or snowy adventures. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) latest overseas arrivals and departures data revealed that Aussies took more than one million short-term trips in April 2025 – up 8.3% compared to the same period the previous year.
Maximising your time off from work using annual leave is something of an art-form in Australia. But making the most of it requires a bit of thinking ahead.
As COVID concerns are basically non-existent at this point, another risk is rearing its ugly head and catching Australians off-guard as they head overseas - jetsetting without travel insurance.