Ski Instructor Insurance

If you’ve lined up work as a winter sports/ski instructor or are going to take a course to qualify you to become an instructor, then it is essential that you take out ‘working holiday ski instructor’ travel insurance that will cover your plans.

Your chosen travel insurance will need to cover you for any snow-based activities, such as snowboarding or skiing off-piste, that you intend to enjoy during your well-earned leisure time, but also offer you crucial cover whist you are at work too.

It’s all too easy to suffer an injury whilst on the slopes, no matter how expert or cautious you are, and it’s essential that you have cover in place for emergency medical treatment, plus repatriation back to the UK if necessary.

If you’re working a ski season and have cover in place for emergency medical treatment from your employer, this may well have its limitations, for example, the cost of getting you back to the UK for ongoing treatment may well be excluded.

As well as medical cover, a specialist policy will also include benefits tailored to what you’ve got planned, such as cover for your skiing equipment and piste closure. This is in addition to standard travel insurance benefits, such as cover for trip cancellation and cover for your personal possessions.

Instructor courses can be a significant financial outlay, so it makes sense to safeguard this expense by taking out a ‘cover for ski instructor courses’ policy. If you have to cancel the course due to a medical injury, then the course organizers may not reimburse your costs. If you have cover for this possibility in place, then this can be reimbursed, avoiding adding financial insult to injury. A specialist travel insurer that may be able to offer cover for working as a ski instructor or to cover a course that you’ve booked to qualify as a ski instructor, is the insurer SkiCover.com , who can cover you under one of their specialist policies.

Receive a 5% discount on the cost of taking out a policy.