Domestic travel insurance from Cover-More Australia
Good reasons to get domestic travel insurance: According to data from Tourism Australia, Australian residents took 70.5 million domestic overnight trips in Australia in 2008. This was 4% lower than the number of domestic overnight trips for the equivalent period in 2007.
Australians spent 272 million nights away from home, which is 6% less than in 2007. Two thirds of visitors travelled within their state in Australia and the remaining 34% travelled interstate. New South Wales received the most visitors with 34%, followed by 24% to Victoria and the same amount to Queensland.
Expenditure by Australian overnight visitors in Australia amounted to $44.6 billion, which represents an increase of 2% compared to 2007. The highest average expenditure per night was in Melbourne ($262), Hobart and Surrounds ($250) and Whitsundays ($246).
Did you know that having travel insurance when you are travelling within Australia can have lots of benefits? Many people still think that they don’t need to take out travel insurance for vacations in Australia. However, imagine your luggage gets lost or you cannot take up your family holiday because one of your family members is ill – your travel insurance will cover you for these circumstances!
You can also get the often very high excess for car rentals covered with your travel insurance. Cover-More Travel Insurance highly recommends following the advice of Smartraveller, the official travel advice website of the Government of Australia: If you can’t afford travel insurance, you can’t afford to travel!