Tidbits for travelers: A travel job & offbeat travel insurance

Posted on February 25th, 2009 by Harriet Baskas

Laid off or worried about getting laid off?

In addition to JetBlue’s promise to refund your airfare if you get laid off, here are two other travel-related outfits that want you to rest easy:

In Park City, Utah the Washington School Inn’s “Pink Slip Protection” package promises to refund your deposit if you get laid off. And the folks at SkyRoll are offering to sell new job seekers (i.e. folks recently laid off) a 50% discount on luggage that might be useful for traveling to your next interview.

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And if you don’t have a job, then consider applying for this: The folk at STA, a student and youth travel company, are looking for two summer interns. This is no “go get coffee” internship: the lucky interns will get to travel around the world for free. Along the way, they’ll blog, shoot and edit video and take photos.

Interested or know someone who should apply? The deadline to turn in a video application for the STA internship is March 8th.

I’m thinking about it…