This week, the eighth annual Travvy Awards Gala introduced collectively main journey suppliers, journey advisors and media members to honor the perfect of the perfect within the journey trade for 2022.

With over 300 awards handed out this yr, the excellent class listing covers airways, locations, resorts and resorts, cruise strains, tour operators, automotive rental corporations and extra. There’s additionally a class devoted to honoring the perfect suppliers of journey insurance coverage, which vacationers are more and more in search of out to protect their journeys towards unexpected incidents after greater than two years of pandemic-related uncertainty.

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Gold Awards

For the seventh yr in a row, Allianz International Help took house the Gold Travvy awards in 2022 for each Total Greatest Journey Insurance coverage Supplier and Greatest Buyer Service amongst journey insurance coverage suppliers.

Allianz’ clients can depend on with the ability to attain multilingual customer support groups, who’re primarily based in 35 international locations world wide at any time, 24/7. Not solely are medical specialists at all times obtainable to assist help vacationers in emergencies, however brokers can even help with nearly every other type of downside clients would possibly encounter on their travels, serving to them resolve comparatively easy to advanced points.

Its clients can at all times name to talk with an actual individual or use the free Allianz TravelSmart app to entry their plan info, file and monitor claims, examine real-time flight updates and boarding gate info, get location-based alerts about occasions that might affect their travels, find medical services close by whereas of their vacation spot and extra.

On account of latest years’ unprecedented pandemic circumstances, Allianz started together with new ‘Epidemic Protection Endorsement’ in sure journey insurance policy, modifying many to incorporate protection advantages for sure losses associated to COVID-19 and any future epidemic which will have an analogous affect.

Silver Awards

In each the Total Greatest Insurance coverage and Greatest Buyer Service Classes, AIG Journey Guard took house the Silver statuette. The corporate affords a wide array of plans, offering specialised protection for each leisure and enterprise journey, worldwide or home. It additionally allows journey advisors to create custom-made protection packages for his or her clientele by combining separate particular person product elements. This flexibility and talent to tailor plans to vacationers’ wants is among the attributes that makes AIG Journey Guard a standout throughout the trade.

Plan advantages can embody protection for such unexpected circumstances as journey cancellation or interruption, healthcare or medical bills, safety or medical evacuation companies, baggage delays or losses, rental automobile injury, and specialised coverages like lodging bills, journey saver or journey trade. Via its community of service facilities all through Asia, Europe and the Americas, Journey Guard works to supply its clients with exemplary customer support.

Because of the unpredictability of journey circumstances throughout the pandemic, cancel-for-any-reason protection can also be a element that many shoppers contemplate vital, which is an possibility included in a few of Journey Guard’s plans.

Bronze Awards

Worldwide Medical Group (IMG) Journey Insurance coverage took house the Bronze Travvy award this yr for Total Greatest Journey Insurance coverage Supplier, whereas Travelex Insurance coverage Companies acquired the Bronze prize for Greatest Buyer Service amongst journey insurance coverage suppliers.

IMG Journey Insurance coverage is among the many trade’s high suppliers of safety plan insurance policies for vacationers, enterprise vacationers, study-abroad college students, international residents and expats, insuring clients towards journey cancellations and delays, misplaced or stolen baggage, healthcare bills and extra whereas they’re on their travels or residing outdoors the U.S. IMG affords a full-service strategy to offering a complete vary of medical, dental, life and incapacity merchandise, together with a devoted group of worldwide, multilingual specialists and highly-trained customer support professionals to assist its clientele.

An trade chief with 25 years’ expertise, Travelex Insurance coverage Companies affords two important journey insurance policy: Journey Fundamental and Journey Choose, in addition to a U.S.-specific Journey America plan. The corporate additionally permits vacationers to customise their insurance policies with non-obligatory upgrades and add-on advantages to satisfy their very own distinctive wants. Like the opposite winners on this class, Travelex affords wide-ranging protection for the whole lot from canceled or delays flights to emergency medical care or evacuation. It additionally supplies 24/7 medical and concierge help to assist clients resolve any points that come up on their journey, from filling prescriptions overseas to changing journey paperwork or acquiring authorized help.

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