Underscoring the growth and importance of travel insurance, Vacation.com has named Travel Insured International a preferred partner. A new travel protection program has been designed for Vacation.com's 5,100 member agencies, and will be coordinated by Cynthia Perry, vice president of Hartford, CT-based Travel Insured. Member agencies will be able to offer worldwide trip protection programs for individual and group travel clients. Travel Insured notes increased consumer awareness of the value of insurance in the face of record trip delays, missed connections and increased lost/delayed baggage. Visit http://www.travelinsured.com. (GD)