Online travel insurance solutions introduced

ONLINE TRAVEL: Amadeus Lanka, announced its aim to jointly reach out to travel agents in Sri Lanka to offer faster and more reliable online travel solutions with Hayleys AIG for offering online travel insurance solutions for the new age traveller via the Amadeus system deployed at a travel agency location.

The partnership makes Amadeus Lanka the first company to offer online travel insurance solution in Sri Lanka. Currently only 5% travellers buy travel insurance in Sri Lanka. With this partnership, Amadeus Lanka aims to simplify the process of issuing policies and making it available as part of travel booking at the agency level and thereby increasing the share to 40%.

The alliance enables Hayleys AIG to offer its complete range of innovative travel products and solutions covering medical expenses, medical repatriation, delay or loss of checked baggage, loss of passport, personal accident, hospital expenses, personal liability and financial emergency through the Amadeus system that will be accessed by a travel agent.

The travel agent in turn will be able to provide the traveller a travel insurance policy as well as a detailed package of air, car rentals and/or hotel bookings.

Elaborating on the partnership with Hayleys AIG to launch travel insurance offerings in Sri Lanka market, Ankur Bhatia, Managing Director, Amadeus India Sub-continent, said, "As a leading travel technology provider, Amadeus have been at the forefront for creating greater value for the end traveller."