The Beijing Olympics kick off on August 8th, 2008, and travel insurance is vital if you are planning to attend. Thousands of miles from home, visitors can feel the tremendous brunt of getting sick or injured while visiting China without adequate travel insurance. In fact, Travel Insurance China.com is suggesting the potential costs could cripple most people’s finances.

Although sickness and injury come top of the list of worries, travellers should be careful to also include trip cancellation insurance plans which provide trip cancellation to cover trip costs should you not be able to travel to the Olympics because of covered reasons such as getting sick or injured.

Britons should heed the warnings above all if research by esure is anything to go by. They discovered that 15 per cent of Britons fail to check their passport is valid before setting off abroad. With most people being blasé about taking out travel insurance, the potential for an Olympic wonder holiday to turn into a nightmare is a risk not worth taking.