How Becoming an Allianz Partners Specialist Benefits Your Clients

The COVID-19 pandemic cast a spotlight on the importance of travel insurance and protecting your clients and their trips while bringing in more commissions starts with gaining the expertise and tools to effectively sell a travel insurance plan tailored to their needs. The free, newly-revised Allianz Partners Specialist Program from Travel Agent Academy details why offering travel insurance is such as key part of the travel sales process as well as why it pays to team up with a dedicated third-party partner like Allianz.

Over the course of three chapters, students will learn all about the award-winning travel insurance and assistance provider as well as the myriad of ways the right Allianz policy can protect their clients while helping them maximize their earning potential. A step-by-step overview of your customers' experiences with Allianz Travel Insurance, from pre-booking to post-trip, is also included along with key sales tactics. For those who may be unfamiliar, here are a few of the benefits Allianz can offer your clients.

Depending on the policy, with cancellation benefits, your client can recoup up to 100 percent of their non-refundable trip costs if they need to cancel their trip for a covered reason. Examples could include falling ill or being injured in an accident before their trip or a mandatory evacuation in their destination due to a hurricane that was previously unnamed when they purchased their insurance plan. This protects your hard-earned commissions while giving your client more financial flexibility to rebook travel down the road.

Allianz also offers trip interruption benefits under select plans. Perhaps your client experiences a death in the family during their vacation and needs to return home or misses their non-refundable cruise voyage after an unexpected flight delay. In this case, your client can be reimbursed for their insured non-refundable trip costs.

Inclement weather and other disruptions can delay your clients' trips from time to time and that's where Allianz's trip delay benefits come in. With these perks, customers can be reimbursed for unplanned expenses like accommodations and meals due to a covered delay. There's also the option to receive an automatic, no-receipts-required payment of $100 per insured traveler on a plan that includes SmartBenefits.

You can also help protect your clients by pointing them in the direction of a plan that includes emergency medical and dental benefits and or emergency medical transportation benefits. The former can help customers cover emergency medical treatments as well as avoid paying hefty deductibles and out-of-network costs through their healthcare plan if they fall ill or injured while traveling 100 or more miles from home. Allianz can also help them find the nearest pre-screened medical facility and cover the cost of ground or air ambulance in the event a covered individual needs immediate medical attention during their trip.

Allianz also offers baggage loss and delay benefits on some plans, which can reimburse your clients for unplanned purchases of essential items they may need in the event that their luggage is lost, damaged or delayed upon arrival at their destination.

Change fee and loyalty program redeposit fee reimbursement from Allianz can reimburse covered travelers for fees incurred when they need to change an airline or rail ticket or redeposit points into a loyalty program in the event they need to change their travel dates for a covered reason.

To learn more or enroll in the Allianz Partners Specialist Program and other Travel Agent Academy courses, click here.