Outbound travel is gradually becoming a leisure and vacation choice for many Chinese. According to the 2018 Statistical Bulletin on Cultural and Tourism Development released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in 2018, the number of outbound trips made by Chinese citizens reached 149.72 million, an increase of 14.7%. Exotic cuisines, landscapes, cultures, and unique tourism services are attracting more and more Chinese people to choose outbound travel.
Extreme Accidents Can Happen During Outbound Travel – Safety Awareness and Preventive Measures Are Essential
However, even in those well-established travel destinations, it is sometimes difficult to completely avoid extreme accidents. In July 2018, a Chinese man was kidnapped in San Gabriel, California, with kidnappers demanding a ransom of 2 million USD from his parents in China. In February 2019, 33 Chinese citizens were robbed by a gang of Venezuelan and Colombian thugs at a luxury hotel in the Madre de Dios region of eastern Peru. In March, a 22-year-old Chinese male international student was kidnapped in the underground garage of his apartment building in Markham, Greater Toronto Area, Canada. In April, two Chinese citizens were kidnapped by masked gunmen at a construction site in southeastern Nigeria. Kidnappings, abductions, and even riots or wars occur occasionally. Although the probability of such incidents is low, for individual tourists, the impact is 100% if they happen.
Therefore, enhancing safety awareness and taking preventive measures are extremely necessary during outbound travel. For example, understanding local cultural customs and taboos, not trusting strangers easily, choosing safe residential areas, and protecting personal privacy. But sometimes, even with these precautions, you can guard against “nine out of ten” possibilities but not the “one in ten.” Before relevant mechanisms are fully established, the financial and safety losses caused by such “one in ten” incidents can only be borne entirely by the individuals and their families. As a result, how to protect overseas citizens from personal and property losses due to unstable regional situations and poor security conditions in some countries has become a major challenge.
No More Dilemma Between Personal Safety and Property – Global Comprehensive Travel Accident Insurance ProvidesNear-Military-Level Safety Protection
Faced with this challenge, while personal accident, injury, and medical insurance have become essential choices for outbound travelers, these types of insurance generally only provide rescue services for conventional accidents and sudden illnesses, particularly focusing on medical service rescues. For specific extreme events such as kidnapping, abduction, or war, insurance products available to citizens often do not cover them. Therefore, on June 18 of this year, Honghaideren, in collaboration with Yi’an Property Insurance Co., Ltd. (Beijing), as well as Mafen Insurance Brokerage Co., Ltd. and Datong Insurance Brokerage Co., Ltd., and with Huadun GCS as the service provider, took the lead in launching a new insurance product — the “Global Comprehensive Travel Accident Insurance” in Beijing — to address situations where outbound tourists encounter extreme events.
As an insurance service provider with attributes of a crisis response organization, Huadun GCS has operational vehicles and human resources in its global service areas that can meet business needs. It is capable of dispatching negotiation specialists to the scene to formulate strategies for rescuing hostages and paying ransoms in cases of hostage kidnapping or abduction. Even in extreme situations such as war, it can develop emergency evacuation plans and provide tools. Such comprehensive safety protection can be described as “near-military-level.”
Outbound travel is an exploration of foreign cultures, a journey to taste exotic cuisines, and a visual adventure. If you feel that despite having done thorough research and taken comprehensive safety precautions, you still have concerns about certain extreme incidents, then take out Global Comprehensive Travel Accident Insurance for yourself and your family. Bring along “near-military-level” safety protection and let your wonderful adventure begin to the fullest.