Travel insurance provider Allianz Global Assistance is sponsoring an exclusive contest to provide consumers and travel bloggers with opportunities to win an all-expenses-paid trip to New York for the New York Times Travel Show as well as meet with several of the country’s top travel experts.

The “VIP Allianz Global Assistance Concierge” experience will feature an exclusive guided tour of lower Manhattan, lunch with famed travel guide author Pauline Frommer and breakfast with travel personality and travAlliance CEO Mark Murphy.

Package winners will also receive expert travel advice over dinner with “Travel Trifecta” travel bloggers Johnny Jet, Gary Arndt and Lee Abbamonte, The New York Times Travel Show’s keynote speaker for 2016.

The total three-night package includes airfare, accommodations at new York’s Ink 48 hotel, meals with the travel personalities, access to The New York Times Travel Show, a travel itinerary crafted by Pauline Frommer and a NYC City Pass for VIP admission to iconic New York landmarks including the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Contest winners will also receive an Allianz Travel Insurance “Go Bag” featuring a GoPro, a portable power pack, a passport holder and a personally signed coy of Frommer’s EasyGuide to New York City.

Consumers can enter the competition through a custom Facebook app on the Allianz Travel Insurance USA page or participate in the Nov. 12 @AllianzTravelUS Twitter chat on “Bucket List” travel. Chat participants will be automatically entered in the drawing to win the trip for themselves and one guest. Official contest rules are available on the Alliance website.

Bloggers can enter to win by embedding the Allianz Content Capsule, a micro-site featuring videos, infographics and travel tips, onto their own websites. The blogger who drives the most traffic from their readers to the contest entry through the Content Capsule will win the trip for themselves and one guest. Official rules are available here. 

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