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International travel
is an exciting adventure but also poses many unpredictable situations,
especially during these times. If an emergency, accident, illness, or
other covered unforeseen event occurs before or during a trip, you could
lose hundreds or thousands of dollars in non-refundable deposits. Cruises,
package tours, and airline tickets typically require 100% prepayment.
Unforeseen circumstances could make your trip impossible or undesirable,
and could cause you to lose money on cancelled transportation and accommodations.
Trip cancellation
coverage is a form of travel insurance which protects you against these types of losses and much more. International Benefits is dedicated to eliminating these uncertainties from international travel
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To help you plan for
your trips and to keep you informed of international conditions, the different
degrees of travel warnings and announcements from the U.S. State Department
are explained below. This information was taken from the U.S. Department
of State public website which you can view for further
and more in-depth information on the safety situation in specific contries.
Click
here for
Current Travel Warnings from the
U.S. Department of
State
(Source: http://www.travel.state.gov/)
What
Are Travel Warnings, Consular Information Sheets & Public Announcements?
Travel
Warnings are issued when the State Department decides, based on all
relevant information, to recommend that Americans avoid travel to a certain
country. Countries where avoidance of travel is recommended will have
Travel Warnings as well as Consular Information Sheets.
Public Announcements are a means to disseminate information about terrorist threats and other
relatively short-term and/or trans-national conditions posing significant
risks to the security of American travelers. They are made any time there
is a perceived threat and usually have Americans as a particular target
group. In the past, Public Announcements have been issued to deal with
short-term coups, bomb threats to airlines, violence by terrorists and
anniversary dates of specific terrorist events.
Consular Information
Sheets are available for every country of the world. They include
such information as location of the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in the subject
country, unusual immigration practices, health conditions, minor political
disturbances, unusual currency and entry regulations, crime and security
information, and drug penalties. If an unstable condition exists in a
country that is not severe enough to warrant a Travel Warning, a description
of the condition(s) may be included under an optional section entitled
"Safety/Security." On limited occasions, we also restate in
this section any U.S. Embassy advice given to official employees. Consular
Information Sheets generally do not include advice, but present information
in a factual manner so the traveler can make his or her own decisions
concerning travel to a particular country.
To get more information
on travel warnings and public announcement of travel safety on specific
countries, please click
here to visit the U.S. Department of State website.
Please click
here for more information on trip cancellation insurance coverage
and to get an instant quote online.
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