MANCHESTER, UK, February 4th, 2025 – Travel Counsellors for Business, the UK’s largest and fast-growing personal technology platform for travel entrepreneurs, has partnered with travel insurance specialist battleface to offer a comprehensive business travel insurance solution for UK-based corporate clients.
This new offering is now live and brings corporate clients access to battleface’s innovative Business Travel Group policy. Designed for flexibility and simplicity, the policy ensures businesses can efficiently cover employees for work trips without the need for individual form-filling via an annual group plan. For leaner travel, the plan includes cover for recreational activities before or after a trip.
Key features of the battleface Business Travel Insurance plan:
- Trip Cancellation or Curtailment: Covers non-refundable costs and offers the option to send a replacement employee, with limits of up to £5,000 per trip
- Medical and Evacuation Expenses: Up to £10 million for emergency treatment and evacuation
- Personal Accident Benefits: Provides cover up to £100,000, including for corporate event guests
- Incidental Leisure Travel: Includes up to three days’ leisure coverage before or after a business trip
Backed by certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London, the policy is supported by 24/7 emergency assistance, medical, claims, and travel support, ensuring businesses meet duty-of-care obligations while providing peace of mind for employees.
Mel Quinn, Director of Corporate at Travel Counsellors for Business, said: “This partnership with battleface enhances our corporate offering, giving clients access to reliable, flexible insurance solutions and round-the-clock support. It’s a natural extension of our commitment to personalised, concierge like service at every step of the way.”
Sophie Goodchild, Managing Director of battleface UK, added: “Our Business Travel Group policy simplifies insurance for corporate travellers while delivering comprehensive cover and exceptional service. This collaboration with Travel Counsellors ensures businesses and their employees are protected wherever their work takes them.”
Clients can explore and purchase battleface insurance directly through Travel Counsellors’ dedicated platform: https://business.travelcounsellors.com.
For emergencies, claims, or assistance, battleface provides round-the-clock global support to ensure immediate help is always available.
About Travel Counsellors
Vitruvian Partners-backed Travel Counsellors is the UK’s largest and fast-growing technology platform for travel entrepreneurs that connects over 2,000 independent business owners, ultimately enabling them to deliver exceptional levels of customer service. In the year to 31 October 2023, Total Transaction Value (“TTV”) on the platform was more than £900m, up more than 20% against the prior year.
Travel Counsellors operates across six countries (UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, and the UAE) and employs 300 people in its UK headquarters and overseas offices. The Company provides a high touch, digitally enabled platform, that enables and empowers travel counsellors, who are travel entrepreneurs and small business owners, to harness innovative and constantly evolving tools and technology to build their businesses in a way that suits them, with limitless potential and scale. This is underpinned by the knowledge and power of a global community and strong people-first culture.
The company operates its own ATOL supported financial trust which safeguards customers from any failure of a travel supplier involved in their booking. Travel Counsellors is multi-award-winning and has a five star, ‘Excellent’ rating on Trustpilot. It was founded in 1994.
In 2024, Steve Byrne, CEO of Travel Counsellors, was honoured with International Entrepreneur at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the North region. Meanwhile, in 2024, Travel Counsellors was recognised as Top Luxury Agency and Top Business Travel Agency at the TTG Top 50 Awards. Additionally, the company was awarded as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024 and recognised in the E2E Dynamic 100 Track which featured privately owned UK based companies with a turnover of more than £25 million over the past two years. For further information about Travel Counsellors, please visit: https://www.travelcounsellors.co.uk/our-story/