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The top tips for optimal travel protection

Something broken, sick child: it can happen quickly that you need medical help on vacation.(Bild: Ermolaev Alexandr)

Have you booked an expensive long-distance trip and fallen ill shortly before departure or need medical assistance in your vacation destination? This is exactly when it is helpful to have insurance cover. The "Krone" shows you whether a credit card is enough, what benefits membership of an automobile club brings and when it makes sense to take out "real" travel insurance.

Three quarters of Austrians traveled last year. A total of 27 million trips were made at home and abroad - that's an average of five vacations with at least one overnight stay. This puts us in the top third in an EU comparison. However, only less than half of holidaymakers take out travel insurance at the time of booking.