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Allianz Partners Adds Epidemic Coverage To Travel Insurance Products
Allianz Partners, a leading travel insurance and assistance company, is rolling out enhancements to its travel insurance products that may provide coverage to customers who become ill with COVID-19 or a future epidemic, are individually ordered to quarantine, or are denied boarding due to a suspected illness.
This new coverage formalizes and adds to some of the temporary accommodations the company put into place in March 2020 to assist travelers who had been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, the insurer said in a news release.
Specifically, the enhancements add epidemic-related illness as a covered reason to cancel or interrupt a trip, or seek reimbursement for emergency medical care, emergency medical transportation, change fees and loyalty points redeposit fees. The product enhancements also allow insured customers to cancel or interrupt their trip if they or their traveling companion have been individually ord
Allianz Adds âEpidemicâ Coverage to its Travel Insurance Policies
Allianz is making some COVID-19 policies permanent. Photo: Ranta Images/Shutterstock.com.
Allianz Partner on Monday announced that it was adding ‘epidemic’ coverage to its travel insurance offerings.
The news means that travelers who opt to cover their trip with Allianz will be covered if they become ill with COVID-19 or another future epidemic, are individually ordered to quarantine, or are denied boarding due to a suspected illness. It also means that if a traveler is forced to stay at a hotel during a quarantine, they will be covered via their Allianz insurance.
Friday, 19 February 2021, 6:46 pm
A tax on NZ tourists leaving the country, and tougher
rules for car rental agencies, are two things the
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has suggested
could make tourism more sustainable.
Other
recommendations include requiring new tourism infrastructure
to meet environmental criteria before it gets funding, and
strengthening tools the Department of Conservation can use
to address the loss of wildness and natural quiet across our
natural attractions.
The SMC asked experts to comment
on the study.
Professor C. Michael Hall, Department of
Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of
Canterbury, comments:
“The four recommendations of
the PCE represent a valuable step on the path to an improved