Kiwi travellers have moved on from COVID – and found new worries

The financial exposure created by that gap is significant. The AA Travel Insurance survey found that 22% of respondents had no clear plan for funding medical treatment if an emergency arose abroad, just 48% purchase travel insurance on every overseas trip, and 21% rarely or never arrange cover when traveling internationally. Prior to the recent conflict in the Middle East, 55% of respondents had travelled overseas in the previous 12 months, with Australia (46%), Asia (26%), the UK and Europe (17%), the Pacific Islands (13%), and the US and Canada (11%) as the most common destinations. Given the coverage rates in the same survey, a considerable share of those trips are unlikely to have been insured.