Travel Insurance
Top stories from the world of travel and international health insurance – from global trends in purchasing, distribution and claims, to underwriting and reinsurance challenges and opportunities
Westfield promotes specialist cover for divers
Specialist insurer Westfield is targeting dive and activity holidays with flexible cover, including scuba diving, family options, and policies for older travellers
23 Aug 2026
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Chloe Fox
Travel credit cards leave major insurance gaps, survey finds
A Squaremouth survey reveals widespread misunderstandings around credit card exclusions and limits, highlighting costly gaps in medical, cancellation, and pre-existing condition cover
22 Aug 2026
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Chloe Fox
Galaxy Health Insurance launches travel insurance product
The product marks the Indian insurer’s entry into the travel insurance market
21 Aug 2026
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Editorial Team
Travel Guard Singapore completes underwriting transition to Zurich
The transition is part of an ongoing alignment of the brand with Zurich’s wider business operations
19 Aug 2026
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Editorial Team
MoneySuperMarket adds travel to its ChatGPT app
The addition expands the functionality of the price comparison site’s ChatGPT app, which launched earlier this year
15 Aug 2026
US visa bond scheme creates new consideration for medical travel insurers
New visa bonds add an immigration risk for medical travel, with implications for assistance and repatriation planning
13 Aug 2026
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Chloe Fox
Open Insurance Services and IAG Loyalty launch Avios Insurance
The new insurance brand will offer travel, home, and car insurance, with the ability for customers to collect Avios points to fund future trips
11 Aug 2026
Kenya introduces inbound travel health insurance requirement for international visitors
Kenya’s new inbound health insurance requirement adds a key pre-travel compliance step for insurers, travel sellers, and corporate mobility providers during the peak holiday season
9 Aug 2026
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Editorial Team
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Insuring business travellers
Oliver Cuenca investigates how insurers and assistance firms can provide the right travel protection to businesses and their employees
3 Aug 2026
Cybersecurity in healthcare and insurance: building trust in a high-risk digital ecosystem
Chloe Fox speaks to experts about how healthcare’s growing digital connectivity is transforming cybersecurity through zero trust, legacy risks, AI, and telemedicine
3 Aug 2026
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Chloe Fox
Alison Thornberry interview: How insurers can support the future of cross-border healthcare
Chloe Fox speaks to Alison Thornberry, Founder of Sure Insurance Services, about how growing demand for overseas treatment is driving innovation in cross-border healthcare insurance
3 Aug 2026
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Chloe Fox
Industry Voice: When risk moves faster than response – the execution gap in travel and health insurance
Adrian Mincher, Insurance Director, Head of UK, Ireland, and South Africa, at Earnix, explores why AI investment is failing to deliver, how fragmented systems are slowing insurers down, and the...
3 Aug 2026
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Adrian Mincher
Industry Voice: The role of brokers in North American travel insurance distribution
Scott Fleming, President of Aon Affinity Travel Practice, talks to ITIJ about the broker’s role, the insight they have on the industry, and how they help navigate the market
3 Aug 2026
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Scott Fleming
Educating travel insurance customers: whose job is it anyway?
Customer aversion to and confusion about travel insurance is a long-standing problem. While insurers continue to strive for increased simplicity, misunderstandings and frustrations persist. In conversation with Lauren Haigh, industry insiders...
1 Jul 2026
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Lauren Haigh
As world travel patterns change, insurers adapt
Milan Korcok examines global travel trends and how insurers are reacting
1 Jul 2026
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Milan Korcok
Industry Voice: The transformational power of AI in travel insurance
From data extraction to coverage determination, AI is reshaping how travel insurers serve customers at their most vulnerable moments, and the window for early advantage is narrowing, Roi Amir, CEO...
1 Jul 2026
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Roi Amir
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