{"id":14373,"date":"2015-03-06T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:38:34","slug":"travel-insurance-add-on-at-matta-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/travel-insurance-add-on-at-matta-fair","title":{"rendered":"Travel Insurance Add-On At MATTA Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static.imoney.my\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/matta-300x145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14374 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.imoney.my\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/matta-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"matta\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/matta-300x145.jpg 300w, \/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/matta-103x50.jpg 103w, \/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/matta.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Travellers looking for good holiday deals at the upcoming Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) Fair can now get travel insurance too.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day fair beginning March 13, has partnered with Berjaya Sompo Insurance Berhad (BSIB) as its insurance partner for the fair, offering premiums from RM18 per trip.<\/p>\n<p>Fair organising chairman S. Jayakumar said travellers often underestimated the importance of travel insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany travellers think nothing untoward will happen. But does one have to take risks, when for a small sum, one can cover against lost luggage, missed flights or medical expenses in a foreign country?\u201d he said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Datuk Patrick Loh, chief executive officer of BSIB, said the coming fair would be a good platform to provide competitive travel packages and insurance products for travellers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will offer travellers a wide range of affordable travel insurance premiums,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h2>Thanks to Travel Insurance<\/h2>\n<p>For PR consultant Beverley Hon, 39, travel insurance is important when she travelled due to a bad experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have an annual insurance and it\u2019s very useful. Last year I was travelling from the United States to Malaysia, and one of my flights got cancelled due to bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to stay an extra day and the airline would not compensate me. I filed an insurance claim and got RM600 in compensation, which is not bad as I pay RM320 annually,\u201d Hon said.<\/p>\n<p>For Lisa Zama, 28, teacher, was travelling in Indonesia with her sister when disaster struck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA heavy urn fell on her and broke her ribs. She spent several days in hospital. Thankfully we had travel insurance as the medical bill was extremely high,\u201d Lisa said.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/News\/Nation\/2015\/03\/05\/Travel-insurance-an-added-bonus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n[sc:testallianz]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers looking for good holiday deals at the upcoming Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) Fair can now get travel insurance too. The three-day fair beginning March 13, has partnered with Berjaya Sompo Insurance Berhad (BSIB) as its insurance partner for the fair, offering premiums from RM18 per trip. Fair organising chairman S&#8230;. <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/travel-insurance-add-on-at-matta-fair\">View Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,216,231,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance","category-news-updates","category-travel","category-travel-insurance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Travel Insurance Add-On At MATTA Fair | iMoney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Travellers looking for good holiday deals at the upcoming Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) Fair can now get travel insurance too.\" \/>\n<meta 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