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Nowadays, financial technology has obviously been a trend. Financial technology, called Fintech in the thesis, is highly valued in financial and technological fields including P2P trade, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), the application of blockchain, and so on. Among the applications, blockchain is appreciated highly by major financial institutions and worldly known technology corporations in different countries. Insurtech has also been well developed around the world. From 2012 to 2017, the investment has been raised from US$326 million to US$2.134 billion. In recent years, traffic accidents occurred much more often in both local and foreign countries because people travel and study abroad frequently than before. Since the medical expenditure is very expense in foreign countries, many people tend to purchase travel insurance to decrease the cost of possible accidents during their trip. When buying travel insurance, tourists have an option to add the comprehensive travel insurance which covers flight delay, landing at undesignated airport, stolen baggage, baggage lost and delay, and so on. The purpose of this study is analyzing the application of travel inconvenience insurance with blockchain. This paper attempts to discuss how the questionnaire respondents accept insurance with blockchain. We collect the opinions of the respondents through Internet questionnaires and APP questionnaires. The results show that people from above high school educational background accept insurance with blockchain. Then, people who work in financial and insurance field, and freelance have the more willingness to accept insurance with blockchain. Finally, the people more like to purchase the travel inconvenience insurance have more willingness to purchase the insurance with blockchain.
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