Most cruise line brochures have a clause in fine print that protects them from excessive liability. Travel Insurance Travelers headed to potential trouble areas may want to consider buying travel insurance. Travel Guard International , for example, offers a terrorism benefit that covers air, lodging, and other expenses as part of its overall travel insurance policy. According to Travel Guard, the benefit becomes active only when the U.S. State Department issues a travel warning for a related destination. The policy will not cover a claim if the warning is in effect at the time the policy was purchased.
Policies usually cost about four to six percent of a trip s total cost.
Policies vary by insurance agency, and many will not cover losses resulting from cancellations. The Mother Of All Tourism Campaigns Despite continual threats of violence in recent years, tourism has been flourishing in the Middle East. Last year, 2.6 million people visited Israel. In one bizarre case, terror ism and tour ism have become bonded. Strangely enough, a week in October was designated as Iraqi Tourism Week, a fact that remained unknown to the rest of the world until the hijacking of a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight into Baghdad on October 14.