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Travel Insurance Assurance?

This Thanksgiving, ensure you know what’s what with the various assurances of travel insurance.

STS Vacations and Travel Guard Travel Insurance

In December 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed against STS Vacations (a travel agency offering vacation packages, destination wedding packages, and travel insurance) for allegedly deceptively advertising Travel Guard travel…

Travel Guard Insurance for United Airlines Flights

Allegations: Misleadingly representing that consumers who do not purchase travel insurance would be required to pay fees for cancelling or changing flights without disclosing that the airline waived such fees…

American Travel Planners Exclusive Memberships

April 2015: This action was voluntarily dismissed When a complaint is dismissed without prejudice, an amended version of the complaint can be refiled., the reasons for which have not been…

Travel Scams Can Ruin Your Super Bowl Trip

Make sure your luxury Super Bowl hotel isn’t really an abandoned house.

MLM News Alert

TINA.org’s curated list of MLM info and news of note.

Grand Getaway Travel Membership Benefits

December 2015: This action was dismissed When a complaint is dismissed with prejudice, it cannot be refiled. because the parties reached a settlement agreement. September 2015: A false advertising class-action…

How to Avoid a Summer Vacation Nightmare

Before you book that great getaway deal, you need to ask some questions.

Resorts360

TINA.org investigated Resorts360 Vacation Club, a Washington-based multilevel marketing company selling discounted vacation packages, and found that it was operating a pyramid scheme and using atypical and unsubstantiated income claims…

Airbnb’s Travel Insurance Policies

Allegations: Failing to include an “assistance fee” in advertised insurance premiums and then attributing the fee to services that are already part of the insurance contract

Forever Living’s Neverending Deceptive Income Claims

The MLM has been making deceptive earnings claims for the past decade.

Travel Insurance from JetBlue Airways

In October 2019, a class-action lawsuit was filed against JetBlue Airways for allegedly deceptively marketing travel insurance from a third-party insurer Allianz without disclosing that the airline has a financial…

Agoda Travel Website and App

July 2020: This case was transferred from state court to federal court. (Case No. 20-cv-1289, S.D. Cal.) June 2020: A class-action lawsuit was filed against Booking Holdings for allegedly falsely…

The High Cost of SmartFares.com

Everyone wants to travel cheaply. But be wary of travel sites advertising extraordinarily low prices.

Refunds for Air Travel on GoToGate

Allegations: Misrepresenting that GTG helps consumers receive refunds for flight changes or cancellations when the company fails to process refunds and does not issue refunds in accordance with the Department…

AON Affinity Travel Insurance

Allegations: Failing to include an “assistance fee” in advertised premiums

Travelocity

TINA.org reader says discount travel website misled her on a promotion.

Bah Humbug to Holiday Travel Scammers

Stay jolly, everyone.

Total up the Real Toll in Travel Offers

When you’re thinking about planning your dream vacation to the Caribbean, the last thing you want to worry about is getting ripped-off.  But, unfortunately, crooks exist everywhere and the world…