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Three Things I've Learned From Starting A Travel Insurance Company During COVID-19

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It's the beginning of 2020, and my business partner and I are doing well. Recently, we released our AI-powered travel helper.

Three Things I've Learned From Starting A Travel Insurance Company During COVID-19

Early in the year 2020, my business partner and I are doing well. Our AI-powered travel assistant has just been released, and 30 businesses have already signed up as early adopters.

After a week, Covid-19 debuted. The journey came to an end. And there we were, starting over.

It was actually a nice thing.

Our initial offering, which was, quite simply, too much of a "nice to have" for tourists, needed to be rethought in light of the epidemic. The biggest investment a traveller makes in an ecosystem this big and difficult to navigate is in pre-trip lodging and transport. We first intended to provide in-trip help, but customers simply weren't thinking about it.

Everything was reset by Covid-19, including how we see health and fitness, where we live, and how we travel. Early on, it became clear that safeguarding one's health and travel investment had taken precedence for those who were still flying.

We therefore set out to develop tech-driven, person-first travel insurance and care that establishes a new benchmark for how individuals are taken care of while travelling. We combined our expertise in travel data and aid with insurance, an industry notorious for its complicated policies, protracted wait times, and slow, bureaucratic claims procedures.