A group travel insurance plan should be considered if you are a group of five or more people traveling outside your home country. Group travel plans typically provide the same benefits, including the coverage amounts, as individual travel plans. However, there are several advantages and restrictions that you should keep in mind when purchasing a group travel medical insurance plan as opposed to an individual travel medical plan. A group travel medical insurance policy is appropriate when you are traveling in a scheduled group tour to one or more international destinations, as well as a few other scenarios.

Advantages of Group Travel Insurance

• Compared to individual travel insurance plans, group travel insurance plans typically cost 10% less. However, not all the plans that are advertised as group plans provide this cost advantage.
• Instead of completing a separate application for each person, it allows completion of one application and one payment for everyone. Each person in the group would still get their own individual ID card.

Group Travel Insurance Restrictions

• Most group travel insurance plans require that each member have the same start date and end date.
• Each member must select the same deductible, coinsurance and policy maximum.
• With some group plans, should any member of a group want to participate in any hazardous sports activity, such as: scuba diving, kayaking, jet skiing, bungee jumping, etc., and the activity is not covered by a base policy, the hazardous sports rider would be added for every member of the entire group at an additional cost. However, some group plans may allow you to add a hazardous sports rider for selected members only, raising only the selected members' portion of the cost.
• Some group travel insurance plans require that all the members have the same citizenship. Therefore, if members have different citizenship, some of the group plans may not work. In that case, it might still be an option to purchase multiple group travel insurance plans, provided each member of each group still meets the overall eligibility criteria.
• If some members of the group live in a different country, it may not be possible to purchase a group travel insurance policy. However, as noted above it still may be an option to purchase multiple policies.
• When purchasing a group travel insurance policy, members of the group must be a legitimate group. Any random collection of people who are all going to different places for different durations cannot be grouped together simply to attempt to get a group discount.
• If some of the members want to cancel the plan early, it may or may not be an option, as they are all supposed to be together as one group. In such cases, cancellations become challenging and cumbersome. It is best not to choose a group travel insurance product if some members may want to cancel. Instead, please purchase separate policies.

Tips for Purchasing Group Travel Insurance

• Make sure that every member of the group knows the terms and conditions of the policy well so that they know what to expect. If only one of the members does the research, then purchases the policy and other members simply rely on them, they might not be getting the most appropriate policy for their needs, or a plan as comprehensive as they would have hoped for.
• If you are traveling as a group, you should really stick together to avoid problems in an unfamiliar country. This can help reduce the chances of becoming a victim of crime, theft or any other undesirable situation. You may be able to get guidance from your local tour operator or hotel to understand what places to avoid. Of course, you can also do some research on the internet before traveling abroad.

Tour operators that routinely organize foreign tours should consider purchasing group travel insurance for their clients.

Corporations that routinely send groups of business travelers to foreign destinations should consider purchasing group travel insurance for their employees.

Church administrators that routinely send missionaries outside their home countries should consider purchasing group travel insurance for their missionaries.

There are several group travel insurance plans available to choose from. Take a look at a group travel insurance plan that may fit your needs today.

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