Travel Agents Professional Indemnity Cheap Insurance

Pursuant to the Tourism Law, a travel agent organizing package holidays is obliged to take out liability insurance for damage caused to passengers by failure to meet obligations or by partially or inconsistently meeting obligations in relation to the package holiday.

A Travel Agents Professional Indemnity Cheap Insurance policy is concluded for a period of 1 year, based on the number of passengers, desired territorial cover and sum insured. This policy is normally combined with a General Business Liability Cheap Insurance, whereby the travel agent obtains total protection against possible claims based on their extra-contractual or professional liability.

A travel agent organizing package holidays is obliged to secure a guarantee fund for each package holiday with a bank or cheap insurance company for the purposes of compensation payout:

• of the price paid for the travel, if the travel agent’s services cannot be rendered due to payment inability or bankruptcy
• of the costs incurred due to payment inability or bankruptcy of the travel agent responsible for returning the passengers to their point of departure

A travel package guarantee policy can be purchased as a separate policy or as part of a comprehensive cover for package travel organizers, with a premium based on the cover limit and total turnover of the organized package holidays.

Other tourist services include the renting of sports and recreation equipment, such as beach canoes, surfboards, water bikes, beach umbrellas, deck chairs, etc. and can be provided by persons who have insured their users against accidents.

Tourist services including sports, recreational or adventure activities (skiing, diving, surfing, horse-riding, hiking, rafting, canoeing and other similar activities, paragliding, bungee-jumping, etc.) are obliged to insure their users against accidents.

A legal entity will be required to pay a fine of USD 25.000,00 to 133.000,00 if:

• they organize travel (package holiday or trip) or provide passenger transport services, failing to use means of conveyance in which passengers are insured against accidents and baggage loss and damage, and catering facilities in which service users are insured against accidents
• they fail to secure a guarantee fund for each travel package with a bank or insurance company, or if, at the time of payment for the package holiday a passenger is not issued with a certificate of guarantee which enables them to claim damage compensation directly
• they fail to purchase liability insurance for damage caused to passengers by failure to meet obligations or by partially or inconsistently meeting obligations in relation to a package holiday