Working with Us - Clients and Partnerships
As a travel insurance specialist with over 20 years experience we have developed a unique understanding of building profitable partnerships. Our streamlined setup, with product, underwriting, marketing and business development account management all under the same roof, means that we able to be extremely flexible and response to clients needs. Our solutions can therefore be tailor made for our partners and clients.
 


Product Range

  • We have an extensive product range which we do and can tailor to the market we are targeting.
  • Optional extras; we can offer many added extras the most popular being golf, winter sports, and hazardous sports activities; we can also remove cancellation cover or increase it and baggage cover, allowing for truly flexible products.
  • Flexible cover levels, for example we can increase medical emergency levels, or decrease personal liability depending on the partners requirements

Age & Medical Conditions

  • We are able to offer single trip travel insurance with no upper age limit (although our web offering only caters up to 99!).
  • Annual Multi trip insurance is up to 74 years of age.
  • Using our unique medical screening system – MQ Expert we are able to offer cover for over 900 medical conditions, 130 of which are at no additional cost. This is operated by call centre staff and is also available online.

 
Flexibility of Solutions

  • Online – co-branded or white labelled wesbites. Example: Hastings Direct use a co-branded offering online which is supported by our call centres. (www.hastingsdirect.com)
  • Call centre – again co-branded or white labelled. Example: It’s So Easy travel insurance are completely white labelled and fully serviced by the call centre. (www.itssoeasytravelinsurance.com)
  • Integration – implementing the sales process into a booking system. Our most successful example of this is www.thetrainline.com

 
Reasons to work with Columbus

  • Experience
  • Customer knowledge
  • Customer segmentation
  • Strong brand
  • Excellent product range
  • Age banding
  • Cover for medical conditions
  • Flexibility of solutions
  • Concentration on being pro-active with customers
  • Other added value offerings from group

 

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