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One small step for BUPA, a giant step for space travel insurance
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BUPA Travel Insurance is boldly going where no travel insurer has
gone before - into space.
The firm, which already offers travel insurance in specialist
areas such as skiing and gap-year travel, is looking at the space
tourist market as its next area of insurance. With Richard Branson
planning flights into space as early as 2009 and test flights due to
start this year, space travel will soon be a reality.
"We provide insurance cover to people in 190 countries so it
wouldn't be a giant leap to add outer space to that list," said Nick
Potter, head of BUPA travel. "We are looking into space ...
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