Shopping around for travel insurance has always been one of the more boring elements of organising a trip away, and with so many companies offering similar policies it can be a real nightmare deciding what you need. The Guardian wrote a helpful article in 2006 – Consumer test: travel insurance. Their best buy then was Preferential’s Worldtrekker policy. Earlier this year I looked at Endsleigh’s Backpacker Plus policy and World Nomads policy for my six month trip, both of which provided good cover including the occasional adventure activity. In the end I went with World Nomads, and although I didn’t need to make a claim I consider their service probably the best in its field. From the instant you arrive on their website it’s clear that World Nomads know a lot about travel. The policies are straight forward, easy to read, common questions are clearly answered, and more importantly the coverage is designed for adventurous travellers. You can buy online, make a claim online and extend your policy online. World Nomads know their customers and have pitched their product in a very accessible way that really makes it stand out.
World Nomads’ social responsibility program
When you take out a policy with World Nomads there is the option to contribute a couple of dollars to their social responsibility program ‘Footprints’. Micro donations collected in this way have now raised $500,000 from more than 180,000 transactions and funded 34 projects in 18 countries. Footprints does not run projects directly but raises funds on behalf of other organisations, charities and NGOs.
“The contributions, while often small, are growing and today we have a 90% ‘strike rate’ from World Nomads customers,”
- Christy McCarthy, World Nomads Community Relations Manager
The Footrints program has been so successful in raising funds that World Nomads have now created the Footprints network and released an API to allow other e-commerce companies to collect micro-donations.
Be inspired
A series of Positive Footprint documentaries follow groups of travellers who have chosen to go and work on some of these community development projects. What makes someone want to do that on their holiday? What effect does it have on someone who chooses to make a difference when they travel? Is it over-rated and does the community they visit want them there, or care they’ve travelled across the world to help? These are some of the questions that Chris Noble, General manager of World Nomads had and he decided to shoot a documentary following these people and seeing what community project travel or ‘voluntourism’ is all about.
“We shot a pilot ‘Positive Footprints – Nepal’ and managed to get it onto over 15 International Airlines such as Qantas, American , Virgin, Thai. We then had the good fortune of meeting a distributor who’d seen the documentary and wanted to pitch it. So like a scene from a Guy Ritchie film, plane takes off, lands in Cannes, quick handshake, back to Australia…. and Nat Geo Adventure want a series !”
- Chris Noble, World Nomads General Manager
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World Nomads: Insurance Doesn’t Need To Be Boring
Shopping around for travel insurance has always been one of the more boring elements of organising a trip away, and with so many companies offering similar policies it can be a real nightmare deciding what you need. The Guardian wrote a helpful article in 2006 – Consumer test: travel insurance. Their best buy then was Preferential’s Worldtrekker policy. Earlier this year I looked at Endsleigh’s Backpacker Plus policy and World Nomads policy for my six month trip, both of which provided good cover including the occasional adventure activity. In the end I went with World Nomads, and although I didn’t need to make a claim I consider their service probably the best in its field. From the instant you arrive on their website it’s clear that World Nomads know a lot about travel. The policies are straight forward, easy to read, common questions are clearly answered, and more importantly the coverage is designed for adventurous travellers. You can buy online, make a claim online and extend your policy online. World Nomads know their customers and have pitched their product in a very accessible way that really makes it stand out.
World Nomads’ social responsibility program
When you take out a policy with World Nomads there is the option to contribute a couple of dollars to their social responsibility program ‘Footprints’. Micro donations collected in this way have now raised $500,000 from more than 180,000 transactions and funded 34 projects in 18 countries. Footprints does not run projects directly but raises funds on behalf of other organisations, charities and NGOs.
The Footrints program has been so successful in raising funds that World Nomads have now created the Footprints network and released an API to allow other e-commerce companies to collect micro-donations.
Be inspired
A series of Positive Footprint documentaries follow groups of travellers who have chosen to go and work on some of these community development projects. What makes someone want to do that on their holiday? What effect does it have on someone who chooses to make a difference when they travel? Is it over-rated and does the community they visit want them there, or care they’ve travelled across the world to help? These are some of the questions that Chris Noble, General manager of World Nomads had and he decided to shoot a documentary following these people and seeing what community project travel or ‘voluntourism’ is all about.
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