Travel Insurers Must Learn to Deal with Moving Targets
As the pandemic has taught us, travel cover needs to evolve, expand, become more agile, quicker to respond to moving targets, more responsive to individual needs as well as government mandates, yet still remain accessible to moms and dads taking their kids to the beach.
International Students Remain a Resilient Market for Health Insurers
Navigating choices for an education abroad can be a formidable task. Fitting out the student with appropriate health insurance should be an integral part of the planning. There’s too much at stake—for the student and the parents funding the process to leave it an afterthought.
Top Passport Carrying Tips
Having a passport misplaced or stolen ruins any trip. Help your employees stay safe and secure with these top passport carrying tips!
How to Not Look Like a Vulnerable Tourist
Tourists are easy targets for theft and scams. Share these tips with your employees so they can travel like pros and protect themselves from unnecessary losses.
Novus Health Acquires Near Threat Analytics at a Crucial Moment in History
Health Care Services International Inc., operating as Novus Health, “Novus”, is pleased to announce their acquisition of global threat monitoring company, Near Threat Analytics Corp., “Near Threat”.
How to Keep Your Sanity in Check Amidst COVID-19
As COVID-19 forces us to stay home in order to protect each other, for some of us, the isolation may start to trigger anxiety or restlessness.
A Vaccine for Coronavirus: Are We There Yet?
This article is one of the many resources offered within our Health Navigation Platform, giving your members access to credible health information. In it, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Michael Szabo discusses why vaccination is the safest route out of the current pandemic.
Safe or Unsafe? A Practical Guide to Reopening
The COVID-19 pandemic has been part of our lives for many weeks now. With summer and warmer days coming up, and with reopening plans in many provinces and territories, we are tempted to go back to “normal”.
Novus Health and HealthCare 365 Form Strategic Partnership to Provide High Touch Health Services
Health Care Services International, operating as Novus Health (“Novus”), is pleased to announce that they have signed a memorandum of understanding with HealthCare365 (“HC365”), forming a strategic partnership to enhance their existing digital and human health navigation services.
Are You Wearing Your Mask Properly?
Wearing a face mask is a public health measure that is likely to be helpful at this time of the pandemic. The decision to recommend its use by public health authorities was a difficult one.
The Importance of Wearing a Mask
Canada is reopening and wearing a mask on public transit and in indoor public spaces has been made mandatory in some provinces.
Testing, Tracing and Health Certificates: Guidelines for WTTC’s Safe & Seamless Traveller Journey
COVID-19 has shaken the travel industry to its core. We are proud to have provided input to the World Travel & Tourism Council on its Guidelines for WTTC’s Safe & Seamless Traveller Journey.
WTTC publishes new guidelines for travel insurance sector
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has published new guidelines for the travel insurance industry to ensure it is ‘fit for purpose’ and ready to meet the challenges posed by travel during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Travel Insurance? It’s in my DNA.
My first real post so I will start at the beginning: Why do we do what we do?
Why write a blog? Because I’m all about communication.
With my first posting, I started at the beginning… where we came from… but why write a blog?
The World is not “Politically Correct”
Yesterday, I had an interview with a journalist from Metro, a publication that is distributed in over 22 countries. The interview was about extreme and adventure travel.
In times of fear and emergency, you are not alone.
Bus crash in Bolivia, fire in a nightclub in Brazil, heart attack of your spouse or dysentery from food poisoning—all will affect you; leave you vulnerable, sick, injured or possibly dying.
Who’s Who and What’s What at Davos, Switzerland
The World Economic Forum has just finished in Davos, Switzerland, and it reminded me of my time at past events.
The Right to Live, Work, and Be Free
I provided support to some young people involved in the Occupy movement in Toronto: supplies to keep them dry, food and general camping gear. I am not a communist, a radical or interested in destroying the economic structure of our western world.
The Power of Words
I don’t think we realize the power of words and what they can do to us during our lives. We need to be conscious of what we say and how we say it. I don’t mean that you have to be repressed or scared about what you say, but we do need to express ourselves in the right way.