Vacation Travel Mart PROTECTION PLAN

SCHEDULE OF BENEFITS

Benefits per person

Limits per person

Trip Cancellation

Up to Tour Cost

Trip Interruption

Up to Tour Cost

Travel Delay

$500

Accident/Sickness Medical Expense

$10,000

Medical Evacuation/Repatriation

$20,000

Baggage/Personal Effects

$1,000

Baggage Delay

$100

Assistance

Included

 

 

New Benefit: the new benefit is highlighted with bold type.

TRIP CANCELLATION

You are eligible for benefits up to the amount protected for unused non-refundable prepaid expenses for Travel Arrangements whenever You are prevented from taking a Trip for any of the following reasons that occur after the Effective Date of Your Protection Plan:

Ř        Sickness, Injury or death involving You or Your Traveling Companion or Your Business Partner or Family Member of either You or Your Traveling Companion which results in medically imposed restrictions as certified by a Legally Qualified Physician at the time of loss preventing Your continued participation in the Trip;

Ř        Weather which causes complete cessation of services of Your Common Carrier for at least 48consecutive hours;

Ř        Primary Residence of You or Your Traveling Companion is rendered uninhabitable by unforeseen circumstances.

Ř        Hijack, quarantine, jury duty, or court ordered appearance as a witness in a legal action in which You or Your Traveling Companion is not a party (except law enforcement officers);

Ř        Traffic accident, substantiated by a police report, directly involving either You or a Traveling Companion while en route to a scheduled departure point;

Ř        If Your Travel Supplier cancels Your Trip, You are eligible for benefits equal to the amount protected for Your airline tickets or the value of the reissue fee.  You must have protected the entire cost of Your Trip including the airfare. 

 

All cancellations must be reported to Vacation Travel Mart within 72 hours of the event causing the need to cancel. If the event delays the reporting of the cancellation beyond the 72 hours, report the event as soon as possible. All other delays of reporting beyond 72 hours will result in reduced benefit payments.

RATES

 

Tour Cost

Band

Net rate due to TII

$0 - $500

$9.00

$501 - $1,000

$15.00

$1001 - $1500

$22.00

$1501 - $2000

$51.70

$2001 - $2500

$68.20

$2501 - $3000

$82.50

$3001 - $3500

$93.50

$3501 - $4000

$107.80

$4001 - $4500

$121.00

$4501 - $5000

$151.80

$5001 - $6000

$187.00

 

The above rates are the net rate per person due to Travel Insured International.  For all passengers with trip costs up to $1,500 per person the plan will be included for all passengers on a mandatory basis.  The cost of the protection plan will be included in the passenger’s total trip cost and not separately disclosed to the passenger.

 

For all trips over $1500 the plan will be offered to every passenger and must be specifically declined.  The cost of the protection plan should be included on every invoice sent to the passenger as a separate line item and in the invoice total.  The passenger may decline participation in the plan by subtracting the plan cost from the invoice total and paying the invoice balance.

 

It is understood that in the event hotel accommodations are rendered unavailable, Vacation Travel Mart will reschedule their passengers to alternate hotels or destinations at no extra cost or refund the total cost of the hotel. 

 

The above rates take into consideration your current cancellation penalties.  Please advise prior to any change in your cancellation penalties in order that we may review the impact on your plan rates.

 

Administration

 

 

·         Travel Insured International is responsible for all printing, customer service, and claim administration.

 

·         ThThe Plan cost must be included on a mandatory basis for all trips up to $1,500 per person and o automatically invoiced for all trips greater than $1,500.  Automatic invoice means that the Plan cost must be included on every passengers invoice as a separate line item and included in the invoice total.  The passenger may “opt out”, decline participation, by subtracting the plan cost from the invoice total and signing a waiver.  A sample invoice showing how the plan will be invoiced is required to bind this account.

·         Travel Insured International will provide you with a Description of Benefits to be distributed to each passenger with every invoice.  This is all the information the passenger receives.

·         Eligibility for waiver of the Pre-Existing Medical Condition Exclusion is available provided the plan is purchased within 24 hours of the initial trip deposit.

·         This is the only travel protection plan that will be offered by Vacation Travel Mart.

·         Remittance is based upon collections.  Britannica Travel dba Vacation Travel Mart will remit all plan costs collected, net of their service fees, to TII no later than the 15th of each month for prior month’s sales.  For example you will remit all plan costs collected in March to Travel Insured International no later than April 15th.   Payment to Travel Insured International will be by check.

·         A manifest report should accompany the check.  A copy will be provided once the account is bound.  An electronic transfer of the manifest from Britannica Travel dba Vacation Travel Mart to Travel Insured International will be requested. 

·         The Plan must be purchased for the full cost of the trip. 

·         Upon request Travel Insured International will provide language for Britannica Travel dba Vacation Travel Mart to use in their website, tour brochure and marketing publications to reference the protection plan.  All references to Fairmont Specialty, TIG, TII or the protection plan must first be approved by TII prior to printing.  Once language has been approved it may be used in all marketing publications.

·         We will be periodically reviewing your account to make sure that this program is profitable for your company as well as for Travel Insured International, Inc.  On an annual basis we will be doing a full review and will, at that time, ask you for some information so that we can update our files.

·         Britannica Travel dba Vacation Travel Mart is an independent contractor and as such shall not be considered an employee of Travel Insured International, Inc.

 

This agreement may be terminated by either party at any time upon 30 days written notice to the other.  Travel Insured International, Inc. may also terminate this Agreement immediately upon written notice for violation of law or non-compliance with this Agreement by the above-mentioned company.  This Agreement shall automatically terminate upon the death of the company principal or loss of required license. This Agreement and the authority given may not be assigned to another person or entity.  This Agreement is subject to any subsequent addendum.

 

By signing below I verify that I have read and understood this document and enter into this agreement between Britannica Travel dba Vacation Travel Mart and Travel Insured International, Inc.

 

 

 

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