The convention connection
A member flying to the international convention misses a cancelled connection and lands a day late, hotel night burned. Trip-delay benefits are designed to help with the unplanned night and meals.
Partners · Civic Clubs & Chambers
A chamber member travel benefit your board can stand behind.
Your members already travel: the international convention, the sister-city delegation, the chamber trip abroad, their own vacations. What they don’t have is a travel-protection benefit with your organization’s name on it. BonaVia is designed to be exactly that: coverage for the trips your members already take, and a sponsorship back to the projects your organization exists to fund.
Why clubs and chambers partner with BonaVia
A service to your members. A service to the projects.
Your members’ need first: the convention abroad, the sister-city delegation, the chamber trip: organized under your name, protected by nobody. Major service organizations advise members to arrange their own travel insurance, Medicare generally does not cover care outside the US [Medicare.gov, 2026], and the club is who hears about it when the trip goes sideways. Partnership puts a plan card and a 24/7 assistance number in every covered member’s phone, with your organization getting the credit.
Then the board’s need: dues now make up well under half of the average chamber’s budget, by industry benchmarks [ACCE-era benchmarking, ~2021]: every board is hunting for member benefits that add revenue. The sponsorship is that: funding attached to trips your members were taking anyway.
Non-dues revenue, plainly
We share up to 40% of what we collect with your organization as a sponsorship: plain dollars the treasurer can report at the next meeting, in the one budget category every board keeps asking for more of.
Zero cost, zero lift
No fee to partner, and members pay the same price they would pay anywhere else. Your co-branded page exists the day you sign up: the newsletter, the district bulletin, the trip announcement.
You never sell insurance
BonaVia is the licensed producer; coverage is underwritten by our licensed carrier partners. Your organization introduces the benefit and names the project: licensing, disclosures, and claims stay ours.
A second door for member businesses
The same partnership introduces your member businesses to annual plans for their traveling teams: one decision that covers every trip their people take all year. A benefit the chamber gets credit for twice.
The napkin math
A chamber of 300 members, illustratively:
- One chamber trip abroad, 30 travelers
- 30 covered trips
- Members’ own vacations through the chamber page
- 80+ covered trips
- Member businesses moving their teams to annual plans
- a second stream
- What sponsorship credit a typical active partner organization receives for its cause
- ~$1,200+ a year
- In board terms
- non-dues revenue that funds the service work
Illustrative volumes and typical-partner sponsorship credit from the BonaVia working model, not a quote or a promised rate. Sponsorship credit is credited per covered trip and varies with member travel.
A hole your members already acknowledge
Service clubs and chambers are travel organizations that don’t think of themselves that way. The largest international service organizations count over a million members across tens of thousands of clubs, and their annual conventions draw crowds in the tens of thousands from more than a hundred countries [service-organization published figures, 2025]. Yet the protection layer is left to each traveler: major service organizations advise attendees to arrange their own travel insurance.
For a membership that skews senior and travels internationally, that gap is not hypothetical: it’s the board’s own convention delegation. Medicare generally does not cover care outside the US [Medicare.gov, 2026], many foreign hospitals want a payment guarantee before treating [U.S. State Dept, 2026], and an air-ambulance evacuation home runs $20,000 to $200,000 or more [U.S. State Dept / CDC, 2024].
These are organizations built on member benefits and service funding. A partnership fills a gap the members already feel, in a category the board already understands: the member-benefit program that creates member revenue.
What goes wrong out there
The cobblestones
On the city tour after the closing session, a longtime member slips on wet cobblestones and fractures a wrist, and the foreign hospital wants a payment guarantee before treating. Emergency medical benefits and 24/7 assistance are designed to help coordinate care and costs.
The service-project crates
A club’s international service team arrives; the checked cases with the project tools don’t: international bags go astray at five times the domestic rate [SITA, 2025]. Baggage benefits are designed to help bridge the gap so the build week doesn’t stall.
The board’s own numbers
~56%
of the average chamber’s budget is already non-dues revenue, by industry benchmarks, and every board wants more of it.
ACCE benchmarking, ~2021; industry estimate
$0
what Medicare generally pays for care outside the US, for a membership that flies to conventions abroad.
Medicare.gov, 2026
$20K–$200K+
an air-ambulance evacuation home: the bill that can land on the member the club sent.
U.S. State Dept / CDC, 2024
9 per 1,000
bags mishandled on international itineraries, five times the domestic rate, and conventions and charters are international itineraries.
SITA, 2025
Figures are risk context, not a description of coverage.
What happens when you sign up
I
Tell us about your club or chamber
The membership, the travel your organization runs, and the project the sponsorship should feed. We respond within two business days.
II
Your page goes live
A co-branded page with your organization’s name and project, in the member newsletter, the district bulletin, and the trip announcement the day you sign up.
III
Members protect the trips they already take
The chamber trip abroad, the district conference, the member’s own vacation: an honest price in minutes, at the same price as anywhere else.
IV
The sponsorship funds the service work, twice
We share up to 40% of what we collect with your organization as a sponsorship, in plain dollars, and member businesses moving to annual plans open a second stream the chamber gets credit for.
What could your sponsorship fund?
You name the cause. Every covered trip funds it.
- The club’s signature charity
- Scholarship night
- Service projects
- Community grants
- Park cleanups
- The holiday drive
…or anything else your organization cares about: you tell us who. Non-dues revenue, stated in plain dollars.
Out on the road
- The convention connection was cancelled; the hotel night wasn’t refundable.
- Wet cobblestones, a fractured wrist, and a hospital that wanted payment up front.
- The crates with the service-project tools arrived three days after the volunteers.
- A delegation member’s luggage saw more of Europe than the delegation did.
- The sister-city banquet went on, without the keynote gift stuck in customs.
- One member’s gallbladder ended the trip early; the tour operator’s refund policy didn’t care.
Talk to a partnership director
Fifteen minutes, and you’ll know exactly what this looks like for your board, and what it adds for the projects your members show up for.
Tell us about your organization and how your people travel. A partnership director reads every note and responds within two business days.