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What's next for Travel Insurance Guide?
Posted 3:06 PM Wednesday June 11, 2008 by Jennie McLoughlin
Hi everyone, As a follow on from Paul's blog helping you find the best Travel Insurance, I thought I would introduce myself and tell you all a bit about the work I have been doing on our newly re-launched Travel Insurance Guide.
My name's Jennie and I work on the usability and content side of things for Fubra's network of websites. Most recently I have been putting my efforts into improving the Travel Insurance Guide by coming up with new features, re-designing the layout and researching content to enhance the information we provide to visitors. One of the developers, Matt Ward, has been working on getting the new features ready and they are now live on the site! However, there are lots more to come and so I wanted to explain a bit about the work we have done so far and what's left to come!
There are a lot of comparison websites out there offering the "cheapest" holiday insurance deals, but these are not necessarily the best way to go when booking travel insurance. From personal experience I have learnt that getting the right cover for your needs, and understanding your policy is far more important. This becomes very hard for people as travel insurance policies are often long, complicated and full of hard to understand clauses that turn finding a policy to suit your needs into a much harder job than it needs to be. For this reason I have tried to concentrate on giving visitors an easy to navigate website, which is jam-packed with content relevant to them, written in an easy to understand way and explaining exactly what they need to look out for in their policy.
As well as the content on our site I have also been made a start on a policy comparision engine. This is still in the early stages of development but we have a beta version live on the front page that allows you to compare policies on price and also on what they include. It's really important to us that we show people the amount of cover different policies offer so that you get a policy that is suitable for you so if you have tried the quote form and have any feedback please get in touch.
Of course this is just the very start of the new policy comparison engine. I am now working on getting even more information gathered together about different providers and policies and visitors to the site will soon be able to compare policy prices and cover amounts offered at the same time. We will also be adding a feature that allows people to choose to exclude certain types of cover such as baggage and cancellation. This is a service that many insurance providers offer to customers in order to reduce the policy premium. Many people have baggage covered under their home insurance policy or by their credit card, so it may often be an unnecessary extra.
I also hope to offer live quotes soon and deepen the relationships with the providers we feature so help them explain their businesses and policies better on our web site so our visitors have every possible bit of information at their fingertips before they buy a policy. Once we have done this I hope to launch a special offers section which will mean visitors can find out about any offers in place and we will work with the providers to try and secure as many offers as we can.
Our aim is to provide impartial, informative and comprehensive content on our site to help people choose the right travel insurance policy for their needs. To that end we aim to cover the whole market and I am pleased to report we are now comparing over 1500 policies from 68 holiday insurance providers.
I will be writing a regular blog explaining the current projects we are working on and things in the pipeline here at Fubra. If you think my job sounds like something you would be successful at and interested in then let us know, we are always on the look out for new people to manage the development of the websites we run!
