Know the Importance of Travel Insurance When Traveling Domestically and Abroad Travel
Insurance is still underestimated as one of the good equipment when traveling abroad and within the country. As stated by the Chairman of ASTINDO, Pauline Suharno, Indonesians will usually only buy this travel insurance if it becomes a mandatory requirement to enter a country or region. For example, when traveling during the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Indonesians don't think if they are told to buy travel insurance, if they buy compulsary (mandatory) new buys, rarely people are willing to buy travel insurance when it is not compulsary," Pauline told Pauline. He conveyed this statement to Kompas.com at the ASTINDO Travel Fair 2023 event at ICE BSD, Tangerang, Friday (24/2/2023).Why travel insurance
Is underestimated According to him, tourists consider this travel insurance not too important because of several factors. Some of them are the duration of the trip which is only a few days, to consider the cost of medicine in the destination area that can still be reached. "No, you don't have to, just leave for a while, it's cheap to get treatment there. I don't think (tourists) are afraid, if not compulsary," he added.
Benefits of travel insurance when traveling both at home and abroad, travel insurance can protect yourself and your family from unexpected situations. For example, when experiencing flight delays, losing baggage, or when dealing with medical emergencies.
"Not only for accidents while traveling, but it can also be for losing baggage, experiencing pain while traveling both domestically and abroad which requires hospitalization, it can also be covered by travel insurance," said Willy. Willy hopes that the increasing interest of the Indonesian people to travel this year will also be accompanied by increased awareness of the importance of self-protection using travel insurance. "We hope that in 2023 with the high public interest in traveling, we will also get a good impact and of course the level of travel insurance in Indonesian society can be increased again," he said.