Why is travel insurance an important part of a backpacking holiday?

There are a variety of emergency situations you can run into while on a backpacking holiday. 

For example, you might: 

• Become unexpectedly sick or injured and require a doctor’s consultation, hospitalisation or at worst, 
• Become a victim of theft and lose that new camera or GoPro you purchased for the trip. 
• Have to cancel your backpacking holiday completely due to an unexpected sickness, injury or a death in the family. 
• Injure yourself while overseas  
• Find yourself stranded at the airport after your flights are unexpectedly delayed due to bad weather or a natural disaster, preventing you from returning home as planned. 

In these types of emergencies, travel insurance may be able to provide cover for related expenses as well as connect you with a 24-hour emergency assistance team. 

The cost of travel insurance for backpackers is incomparable to the thousands of dollars you might otherwise have to pay for emergency hospitalisation expenses, medical evacuation or repatriation, replacing lost or stolen luggage or cancellation costs.