Category: Travel Insurance

Travel medical emergencies can cost a fortune! Ensure you know what your travel insurance covers and read our 7 ways to avoid a denied travel insurance claim.

Think you’re sufficiently covered by your work benefit or credit card travel insurance for your next trip? Think again! One reason why you’d want—and need—to top up your existing travel insurance policy is that it may not cover the entire length of your planned trip.

it’s important to consider some key health, wellness, and safety issues so that you can best prepare for your trip. Read on for our guide to spring break travel during COVID-19: 8 Things to know before you go.

The pandemic has made the importance of travel insurance more top-of-mind for Canadians than it’s ever been. But many still rely only on their credit card’s limited coverage! When looking at level of coverage, trip length options, coverage maximums, age restrictions, emergency assistance, pre-existing conditions, and other significant variables, your credit card’s travel insurance may not be as reliable as you think it is.

With more than 78% of Canada’s population now fully vaccinated, and boosters becoming available across the country, it’s the perfect time to address questions about how travel insurance responds for Canadians.

Not ready for that long-awaited, well-deserved vacation to end? Or want to stay to visit family just a bit longer? Or, do you need to stay away longer for work? Or, has your flight been delayed due to circumstances beyond your control, preventing you from returning home? Or, are you stuck at your destination under quarantine?

With COVID-19 and other prevalent global viruses on travellers’ minds, the need for an understanding of proper travel protection has also grown. These and other general health and safety concerns related to travelling might have you wondering, “When is the right time to buy travel insurance?” As you’ll read with one essential worker’s experience with COVID-19 below, the answer might be sooner than you think!

As resilient as the travel industry has proven to be throughout the ongoing pandemic, travelling anywhere these days comes with a set of unprecedented risks that, as a traveller, require you to stay more aware of your travel protection. Read on about one traveller’s experience with COVID-19—and how TuGo helped protect him, when he was most vulnerable.

If there’s anything you’ll find an abundance of in many Canadian destinations during the wintertime, it’s snow! And with all that snow comes a wide variety of winter sports and activities to suit every traveller’s taste—and the right travel insurance to match.

On November 30, TuGo took further steps beyond covering COVID-19 for vaccinated and unvaccinated Canadian travellers under a Level 3 (“avoid non-essential travel”) advisory, to also covering them under a Level 4 (“avoid all travel”) advisory—subject to vaccination requirements outlined in the policy.