BEFORE YOU LEAVE
How to get your visa: you may need a visa to travel in some countries. If you do not have the time to visit the closest consular office and follow the usual apprication process and run for your invitation letter, you might just as well resort to a visa company such as visa-express.com. An insurance certificate may be requiered to enter some countries (Russia, China, Ecuador), check with the pertaining consular authorities before your trip.
New 2018 : if no visa is necessary for stays in Ecuador under 90 days, from May 1st 2018 a travel insurance certificate in Spanish will be required from any tourist or traveler to enter Ecuador.
You will receive AVI insurance certificate by email with your travel insurance documents and may even choose its language for visa applications.
Before leaving, you may want to know what the weather will be like on your vacation spot. You may visit some of the specialized weather forecasts websites:
timeanddate.com, thetimenow.com, weather.com
The sports covered by your travel insurance without additional coverage: Leisure and holiday sports are covered provided they are performed as "amateur"
The following sports are also covered:
- Winter sports practice including skiing and sledding.
- Sea cruises,
- Any aircraft as a passenger,
- Practice of ice hockey in states or regions where this sport is practiced by youth within the age of the insured.
Sports and leisure extension: It extends your coverage to the consequences of an accident you were victim to while practicing one of the sports listed in annex 1 of the General Conditions of Insurance.
In the case of accident while practicing a sport in a club, the Insurer will act as secondary insurer after all the insurance coverage of your sport club available.
USEFUL CONTACTS
You wish to contact other travelers, exchange ideas about your next destination or share your travel feedback?
Join Aventures du Bout du Monde, the association that brings together travel and adventure lovers on abm.fr
You want to travel differently? voyageons-autrement.com aims at raising awareness and put the sustainable tourism players, ecotourism and responsible tourism forward.
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