Here's what we are tackling this month.

Our lead story details the issue of new documents from Canada’s Travel Health Insurance Association (THiA) and the Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators (CCIR) that aim to encourage product improvements and industry developments that will help protect consumers and enhance confidence in the travel health insurance marketplace. For an in-depth look at the CCIR’s Position Paper and THiA’s Bill of Rights, see our News Analysis feature on p.14. It’s great to see such positive moves by the industry and associated institutions, all working to better meet consumer expectations.

If you were in Bangkok for the ninth ITIC APAC conference in June, you may be interested in a recap of the sessions and networking events that took place as part of a packed agenda by checking out our full review on p.37. If you weren’t at the event, the session synopses provide a fascinating insight into a range of topics pertinent to the APAC market – a must-read!

ITIJ was not only at ITIC in Bangkok reporting on the conference, we were also filming for ITIJ.TV. If you were there and stopped by to provide soundbites for our online video news updates, thanks very much! ITIJ.TV will also be filming at ITIC Global in Barcelona in November, so if you’ll be there and you’d like to appear in our Industry Insights segment talking about a topic of your choice, come and visit us, or get in touch in advance to arrange a convenient time to pop by – [email protected]. We’d love to have you involved.

ITIC Global will, of course, also be the setting for this year’s ITIJ Awards. A chance to be recognised for the difference you make to the industry, the ITIJ Awards is your opportunity to reward your team for their hard work over the last 12 months. Thank you to everyone who has nominated preferred partners and/or their own company for an Award. The nominations are being reviewed, and the finalists in each category will be announced in the next issue of ITIJ.

Coming up soon, we’ve got another reason to celebrate, when we reach our 200th issue! We’ll be marking the occasion with a special edition, so watch this space.

Read the ITIJ July issue here