Travel Insurance

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Ed Balls, today announced that the Government intends to give the Financial Services Authority (FSA) the responsibility for regulating the selling of travel insurance sold along with a holiday.

Keep an eye on your belongings this summer holiday as research reveals one in eight Brits have lost, or had something stolen, while abroad in the last year.

Nine-and-a-half days is the perfect length of a holiday according to new research from Halifax Travel Insurance.

Brighton based American Express Insurance Services is offering Brighton residents a 10% saving on annual travel insurance.

Half of British holidaymakers have done impulsive activities while abroad. The top ten popular escapades include parasailing, rock-climbing, white-water rafting and bungee jumping, according to research by price comparison website moneysupermarket.com.

Many of us will have had reason to complain on holiday, but very few of us know how to go about it according to Halifax Travel Insurance.

With effect from 1 June 2007, Nationwide Building Society will again be offering ‘Kids Go Free’ on single trip travel insurance policies and, in addition, offering two new incentives for people travelling within the UK or abroad this summer:

Holidays were once regarded as sacred ‘me time’ – away from the trials and tribulations of everyday working life. However, 8.74 million workers put in an extra eight hours or more at the office either before or after their holiday to make up for lost time.

One in four people (27 per cent) travel abroad with little or no idea of what their travel insurance covers, according to HSBC, which is urging holidaymakers to check their policy before setting off on vacation this summer.

To celebrate the official start of summer next month, Tesco Travel Insurance is cutting 20% off the cost of all instant annual travel insurance policies bought online.