Tune Protect your travel
Malaysia-based Tune Protect spearheaded innovative initiatives with existing airline partners which in turn gave them strong foundation when crafting and managing travel insurance. Arijit Munshi, General Manager, Tune Protect Group Berhad, talks about the
QDo share the importance of purchasing travel insurance especially in today’s context?
Travelling is perhaps the world’s most common favorite pastime. However rare or frequent travelling is to someone, one expects to have the best memories during their travel. Caught up in the excitement, sometimes the traveller forgets to safeguard themselves. Buying travel insurance is as simple as buying an airline ticket or booking a hotel but it is extremely important to prepare for the worst.
Our advice to every traveller would be, when it comes to travelling, be it business or leisure, having an additional travel protection does not hurt. Purchase of travel insurance should become a second nature for every traveller, with tailored benefits to protect, typical travel insurance covers a host of travel & medical benefits such as luggage is damaged, flight is cancelled, a family member falls ill and the traveller has to cut short his or her travel and return home.
QWhy should someone purchase travel assurance facilitated by Tune Protect?
Together with our head office, Tune Protect Re Ltd in Malaysia and local insurance partners, Tune Protect UAE has been able to lay down a very strong foundation when crafting and managing travel insurance. Tune Protect, an online facilitator based in UAE, has partnerships to understand and cater to specific travel requirements, offering today’s traveller tailor-made, SMART travel insurance products, which include a host of travelrelated insurance benefits that covers the insured Before, During and After the travel.
QWhat are the important areas covered by Tune Protect in the region as a facilitator?
Tune Protect and its local insurance partners have a very good understanding of the growing needs or various types of travellers, be it for adventure, golf, shopping, winter activities or just simple leisure or business travel. With our understanding, we are able to design products which can cover the travel or parts of travel based on travellers’ specific needs.
The first is Travel Assurance Before, During & After. These plans are Schengen compliant. Travel Assurance Before, During & After offers more than 20 benefits which include medical, personal accident, evacuation and repatriation, travel inconvenience, baggage and personal effects benefit among others.
The second product is the Lifestyle Assurance, which caters to specific travel needs, safeguarding travellers while they are enjoying their favorite pastimes during their travel. Products offered are ShopCare, GolfCare, WinterCare and AdventureCare, a suite of niche insurance for travellers for a very specific activity.
Visit Assurance is yet another unique product offering catered to travellers visiting their friends and families within the region. Tune Protect has also launched a unique product offering for travellers departing from Sharjah Airport to anywhere in the world on any airline, Baggage Assurance, a travel insurance product offered to travellers to secure their checked-in baggage only. Finally, the latest addition to the suite of products is the Travel Easy. This is a very lean insurance plan that caters to the need of frequent flyers, specifically looking for travel insurance coverage that offers flight and baggage benefits only.
QCan anyone purchase it outside through their travel agents/tour operators?
Currently the travel insurance facilitated by Tune Protect is only available through the business partners on various sales channels such as Air Arabia, AirAsia & Cebu Pacific websites whereby travellers can purchase either online or through the call centre along with the airline tickets and avail a host of other products & benefits which are available throughout the region.
The latest addition to the suite of products is Travel Easy. This is a very lean insurance plan that caters to frequent flyers, specifically looking for travel insurance coverage that offers flight and baggage benefits only