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The unexpected expense of emergency medical treatment is the single most expensive hidden cost travellers could get hit with the next time they travel – whether on business or pleasure, within Canada or around the world. Your customers are travelling, and they know about travel insurance. If you’re not selling or promoting it, they’ll be forced to choose another provider.

Below, some examples that demonstrate the importance of purchasing travel insurance:

An Albertan on holiday in California falls off his bike. Precautionary CAT scans are taken. Thankfully, he hasn’t suffered major trauma, but the hospital bill totals $8,453. His $198 TIC coverage takes care of everything, saving him at least one major headache.

A British mother staying with her daughter in Ontario has emergency bowel surgery due to a life-threatening obstruction. Her $372, 3-month Visitors to Canada plan from TIC covers everything - mere peanuts compared to the $12,289 hospital bill.

A British Columbian student paragliding in New Mexico has a serious crash. Diagnosis? Broken Pelvis. Cost? $68,393. Cost of emergency transportation? $1,800. Cost to the student? $57 for travel insurance.

An Ontarian skiing in British Columbia takes a spill. The ambulance ride alone is $530 and is not covered by her provincial health insurance. Plus, she misses the last half of her $1,460 package ski-holiday. Good thing her all-inclusive travel insurance covered her full medical expenses, trip cancellation and emergency travel home for only $113.

A Manitoban who takes frequent business trips to the U.S. is hospitalized for sudden chest pains in Kansas. Turns out, he’s had a minor heart attack. The $34,653 cost of his hospital stay might have given him a second heart attack if it hadn’t been taken care of by his $78 basic annual Multi-trip Plan, which covers him for an unlimited number of 8-day trips for a full year.