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Insightful information for both travel agents and travellers, the Bryte Travel Index unpacks the most recent – and important – information, trends and challenges around local and global travel.

The 2024 Bryte Travel Index explores the costliest destinations for emergency medical care, how holiday seasons are heating up, and critical holiday checklists.

Mitigating risk for our customers is at the core of everything we do. Here you’ll find a collection of our thought leadership articles on a range of topics exploring risk management in different industries and the world at large.

Bryte Insurance Company Limited, Southern Africa's premier proactive business risk specialist, has appointed Tebogo Baloyi as the new Head of Human Resources. Tebogo has been with Bryte for six years and served as the Head of Learning & Development. During that time, he was crucial in developing the organisation’s supportive, performance-driven culture.

Bryte CEO JP Blignaut said: “I am delighted to announce Tebogo’s appointment. He is an accomplished HR expert passionate about developing talent and ensuring the organisation remains on the cutting edge of skills development and digital enablement.”

Tebogo has experience in multiple industries, directing learning teams and delivering across the learning and development value chain. He has extensive experience in competency-based learning, leadership development, talent management, and career pathing.

At Bryte, he has designed talent enablement strategies and has driven transformation through skills development initiatives. 

Blignaut added: “Tebogo leads an accomplished HR team that will ensure we effectively pursue our strategy and are focused on delivering exceptional service for our clients and partners.”

Bryte Insurance Company Limited, the proactive insurance risk specialist, has launched a new transactional website focused on its travel business. 

South Africa continues to see a significant increase in international travel, with international departures increasing by 147.3% between April 2021 and April 2022. With the consequent increase in the demand for travel insurance, Bryte’s new website aims to address its clients' evolving needs and enhance its customer value proposition as the service provider at the forefront of delivering pioneering risk management solutions. 

The new site offers end-to-end support services from the point of sale through to the claims stage. Customers will be able to:

• Obtain quotes and buy their travel insurance policies online 
• Submit a claim and provide all supporting documents
• Review product information — if a client is unsure of what plan to select
• Review FAQs
• Corporate clients can record their business trips online

“Our new Bryte Travel website is informed by our goal to use a range of innovative platforms that connect customers more effectively and ensure optimal value for the product that they are looking for. We are continuously focused on creating effective solutions that can withstand the test of time by remaining relevant and responsive to the needs of the market,” said Bryte Head of Travel, Anriëth Symon.  

This development is in line with Bryte’s efforts to identify intelligent methods that enhance data gathering and analytics capabilities, enabling it to adopt a more tailored approach to supporting each customer.

Commenting on Bryte Travel’s new website launch, JP Blignaut, CEO of Bryte Insurance, states: “At Bryte Insurance, we place significant emphasis on developing long-term partnerships and are committed to building a business that intrinsically guides the customer throughout their risk journey. We are fully dedicated to maintaining the highest levels of relevance and consistently investing in value-adding enhancements.”

Bryte Travel offers comprehensive insurance for unforeseeable and unexpected incidents that may affect a client’s trip. Clients can access the website at https://travelinsurance.brytesa.com 

Bryte Insurance Company Limited, one of South Africa’s leading travel insurance providers, has launched its inaugural Travel Index. The Bryte Travel Index 2022, which leverages the insurer’s data provides unique insights into the international travel preferences of South African travellers and, importantly, the risks faced.

Sharing her excitement on the inaugural Bryte Travel Index, Anrieth Symon, Head of Travel at Bryte, comments; “As country’s most prominent travel insurance provider, we are excited to make sense of the wealth of data on hand in a manner that captures the risks associated with travel but also the thrill of adventure. We maintain that travel should be a celebration —very little compares with the sheer joy of discovering new places, exploring new cultural treasures and the pleasure of re-visiting old favourites. But, as a trusted partner to thousands of travellers each year, we wanted to paint a realistic picture of travel-related exposures and provide helpful information that helps readers plan for a safer, hassle-free holiday.”

The insights and trends-focused Index provides a compelling account of the pre- and post-COVID travel habits of South Africans. It shines a spotlight on the international and regional destinations that are among the most popular, how long we travel for, etc. But it also focuses on the more serious realities of travel – the diversity of prevalent, as well as unforeseen, risks, what we claim for and ways in which to manage risk. Through the Index, Bryte shares some astounding examples of risk incidents in recent years, with single policyholder incidents costing millions of rands.

Spotlight destinations

The Bryte 2022 Travel Index confirms shared assumptions and contains some fun surprises. We clearly can’t get enough of the beach but are also massive adventure seekers. Interestingly, Bryte’s Top 10 list of favourite destinations for South African travellers over the past decade, reveals…

• Our top destination for leisure and business travellers is the country that’s home to the world’s most famous royal family and one of the most cosmopolitan cities, globally – the UK
• South Africans love an island getaway. Our top two African destinations are Mauritius and Zanzibar while Thailand, with its array of more than 1,400 gorgeous islands, is our favourite in Asia.
• Also on this list is a country known for such a variety of attractions. From its scenic cycling routes to its world-famous tulip fields and from the canals of Amsterdam to Dutch clogs and cheese… The Netherlands proudly takes its spot as no. 9 on this list

The amazing antipodes

For many travellers, time and money dictate the destinations they gravitate to, but there are those who are in it for the long haul (pun intended!)

Digging in Down Under

When South Africans travel to Australia and New Zealand, it’s rarely for a brief getaway.