Travefy and Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection Announce Major Workflow Integration

Travel advisors will soon be able to quote and sell Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection (BHTP) policies directly within their primary workflow, following a new integration partnership with Travefy. For insurance carriers and MGAs, this move highlights the ongoing shift toward deeply embedded distribution models that prioritize advisor efficiency and reduce the friction typically associated with cross-selling ancillary protection products.

What was announced

Travefy, a technology platform for travel agencies and advisors, has confirmed a direct integration with Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection (BHTP). This partnership is scheduled for a full release in late 2026, positioning BHTP as one of the initial insurance providers to join a select roster of integrated partners on the platform. The primary objective of the integration is to streamline the insurance sales process for travel professionals by embedding BHTP’s quoting and purchasing capabilities directly into the Travefy environment.

The integration is built to solve a specific pain point in the travel distribution chain: the friction of fragmented data and duplicate entry. Currently, travel advisors often have to navigate multiple systems or perform manual data entry to provide insurance options to their clients, which can lead to administrative delays and lost sales opportunities. The upcoming integration aims to eliminate this duplication of effort, allowing advisors to request quotes and include insurance coverage in travel bookings without leaving their existing workflow. This functionality is intended to make the offering of travel insurance a natural part of the booking experience, rather than a secondary, administrative task.

While the BHTP-specific integration is slated for 2026, Travefy has indicated that it plans to launch its initial insurance integrations later this year. This suggests a broader strategy to consolidate insurance distribution within its advisor-facing tools, leveraging the preferred relationships and contracts that agencies have already established with their chosen providers. By connecting insurance products directly with Travefy users, the platform aims to help agencies grow their sales production through a more unified digital experience.

"Travel advisors are looking for ways to make every part of the booking experience more efficient, and our collaboration with Travefy is designed to help them to make offering travel insurance a natural part of that workflow without requiring a separate process. By partnering with Travefy, we’re helping simplify the travel insurance experience by delivering a seamless quoting and purchase flow along with our reputation for fast, streamlined claims service where final claim decisions are always still made by people."

Dean Sivley, President, Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection.

The companies involved

Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection is a travel insurance provider recognized for its focus on streamlined claims service. The company operates within the travel insurance market by offering products designed to be integrated into the professional travel advisor's workflow. A key component of its service model is the commitment to human-led claims processing, ensuring that while the quoting and purchase flow is digital and automated, final claim decisions are consistently made by people. This approach aims to simplify the travel insurance experience for both the advisor and the end traveler by combining technological efficiency with human oversight.

Travefy is an agency and advisor technology platform, described as a widely-adopted solution within the travel industry. Led by CEO David Chait, the platform serves as a central workflow tool for travel agencies and advisors, providing a hub for itinerary management and client communication. Its technology is designed to help drive and grow insurance sales and agency production by connecting insurance products directly with its users. Travefy focuses on building integrations that respect the preferred relationships and contracts that advisors have already established with their insurance providers, aiming to provide a seamless digital environment for managing travel bookings and ancillary services.

What this means from an insurtech perspective

This integration moves the needle for embedded insurance distribution within the B2B2C travel sector. By placing insurance products directly into the advisor’s primary tool, the industry is addressing a major friction point in the insurance value chain: the administrative burden of cross-selling. This puts pressure on incumbent insurance vendors who lack API-first capabilities, as advisors are likely to favor carriers that offer a seamless quoting process within their existing systems. Furthermore, the emphasis on human-led claim decisions highlights a critical balance in insurtech; while distribution and pricing are rapidly automating to improve efficiency, customer trust remains tied to human accountability in the claims process.