Need Travel Insurance?
Need Travel Insurance?
Absa Travel Insurance
Relax and enjoy the journey knowing you’re covered for any eventuality.

Holidays should be stress-free
 

We’ll cover you for unexpected incidents that may affect your travel, from a cancelled flight to a lost suitcase or a sudden illness. Absa Travel Insurance options will ensure that you relax and enjoy every journey. Enjoy a range of travel insurance options that will suit your needs.
 

Easy access to credit

Stress-free holidays

Get top-up cover for your lost baggage, money, missed flights, visas, and more.

Earn attractive interest rates

Exclusive travel discounts

Discounted rates for couples, families and groups travelling together.

Lump sum death benefit included
Forex delivery

Unlimited number of trips (maximum trip duration is 90 days) done within 12 months are covered by our annual multi-trip option.

What you need to know
 

  • Already an Absa customer?

     

    As a holder of a qualifying Absa Visa card, you automatically get up to 90 days’ Basic Travel Insurance for international journeys when purchasing your return travel ticket(s) with your card. Automatic Basic Travel Insurance is available for travellers between three months and 74 years old.


     

  • Top-up cover

    • If you need more cover you can easily add more benefits to your Automatic Basic Cover.
  • Exclusions

    War is a general exclusion on all Bryte policies. Due to sanctions as well as the prevailing conditions please note that cover on all policies (Basic Travel Insurance as well as Top-up cover) for travel to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and associated airspace has been suspended until further notice.

Choose the insurance solution you need

  • As a cardholder of a qualifying Absa card, you qualify for up to 90 days’ Automatic Basic Travel Insurance for international journeys when purchasing your return travel ticket(s) with your credit card.
  • Available for travellers between the ages of three months and 74 years.
  • Basic Travel Insurance does not cover pre-existing medical conditions and may not include cover for certain hazardous activities. A pre-existing medical condition includes any doctor’s consultation or medical advice or treatment (including prescription medication) that you may have received for any chronic or recurring illness or injury in the year before the insurance under this policy started.
  • You have a choice of three optional top-up plans to supplement the Automatic Basic Travel Insurance available to you. Please refer to the optional top-up schedules of benefits in the policy for detailed information on the benefits and limits offered.
  • Your card must be used for payment at a point of sale (POS), or you can pay for your public transport carrier ticket by using an online purchase facility (Card Not Present transaction). EFT transactions (payment from the credit card account) do not qualify.
  • You only qualify for automatic basic cover benefits when your insured journey begins and ends in South Africa.

          OR 

  • Call me back 
  • View our top-up rates
Read your Travel Insurance Policy 
  • Visit the Bryte website get your Automatic Basic Cover confirmation, an Absa quote or buy your Absa Top Up Travel Insurance.
  • Absa Travel Insurance is underwritten by Bryte Insurance Company Limited, a licensed insurer and an authorised FSP (17703).

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Need more help

Contact us
Call us on : 0860 151 151
International: +27 (0) 11 335 4019
Email us at :forex@absa.co.za
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