Statistics have been released by the FCO in a report entitled ‘British Behaviour Abroad’ that make it clear why travellers need to take out adequate travel insurance when they go on holiday. It features incidents from FCO offices across the world from April 2009 to March 2010, highlighting common problems that Brits experience...

With around 17 million UK residents taking trips to Spain every year, it is the number one destination for UK travellers. Largely as a result of the volume of visitors, Spain also ranks as the travel destination with the highest number of reported incidents. Many of these incidents leave visitors in situations where they are uninsured as they have allowed misconceptions surrounding the Europea...

Recent research carried out by swiftcover.com has revealed that long-haul travel insurance sales are up. Currently 25% of travel policies sold by Swiftcover are for long haul trips compared to just 20% five years ago. Consumers were questioned about their travel aspirations and 23% revealed that a tropical island ...

Defaqto has warned travellers to double check their travel insurance policies carefully after finding that 77% of policies don’t provide cover for scheduled airline failure. Of the policies it examined, Defaqto found that: 21% of single-trip insurance policies contained scheduled airline failure cover, with an extra...

Travel insurance providers force their elderly customers to pay huge increases in their premiums when they reach certain age brackets, according to new research from Which? Money. As people get older, they move into different brackets, meaning customers are suddenly expected to pay a huge increase in their pre...