How to Find Personal Travel Safety Tips - enjoy safe travel with the tips belowEmploying proper travel safety ensures that your vacation is both memorable and meaningful. Unfortunately one little incident (natural disaster, theft, injury etc.) can make your vacation memorable for the wrong reasons. You can reduce your risk by developing a travel safety plan - but remember that even with the best preparation things may still happen. All you need to do is have a little foresight and take precautions. Forwarded is forearmed. Start with the best sources of travel advice.
Destination-specific travel guides are a good source of information. Make sure that whatever guide book you utilize is as up-to-date as possible. Focus on political stability and violent/non-violent crime. Some guide books will even be very specific about the areas that you should avoid when you travel.
Your government provides information about safety in foreign countries. Check the travel advisory websites for the United States and Canada before you go outside of North America. Remember that governments may vary in their opinions on the risk however.
When you arrive in a foreign country, contact your own country’s embassy or consulate. Inform staff of your visit and provide them with a copy of your itinerary and a schedule of where you expect to be on each day. If trouble develops within the country, staff can assist you.
Start by trying to keep a low profile while you travel in a foreign country. Don’t attract attention to yourself. Take the following precautions: 1) Do not dress like a wealthy tourist (expensive clothing and jewellery). 2) Don’t be predictable with your travel itinerary. This can give thieves advanced planning time to set up a scan just for you. 3) Don’t talk loud enough that strangers might overhear your conversation. Those who speak English stand out in the crowd, especially in non-English speaking countries.
Then there are "the others". Unfortunately you cannot distinguish between these two groups.
Use your best judgment but be wary of everyone. Don’t make it easy for pickpockets, thieves, muggers, scammers and other undesirables to target you.
Start by hiding your valuables inside a
money belt.
1) You are suddenly swarmed by children 2) You find yourself being jostled in crowds 3) A stranger “accidentally” spills something on you and then someone else tries to help you get cleaned off.
Protect yourself at your place of lodging with the following travel safety tips: 1) Hotels in particular are always filled with strangers and security may be lax. 2) If hotel desk staff calls your room number out loud, ask for a new room. 3) When you rent a room for the night, check the doors and windows carefully - make sure they lock. 4) Keep your doors and windows locked whether you are in the room or not. 5) Do not open your door to anyone even if he/she claims to be one of the staff.
6) While you are out, leave you lights and TV. Passersby will believe that someone is inside. 7) Don’t leave your room key at the reception desk when you go out. Only return it when you check out.
Here are several travel safety tips for ATM and automobile use: 1) Never use an ATM when other people are around you. If you are traveling with someone else, have him or her watch behind you for anything suspicious. 2) Keep your car door locked at all times, whether you are in the car or not. 3) Lock your belongings in the trunk and do not leave anything visible on the car seat.
Should you be the victim of a crime during your vacation, contact the local police. Remember however that in some parts of the world, the police force is corrupt and you could make little headway as a result. If you are the victim of a crime at your hotel, don’t just contact the police; report the crime to the front desk staff as well. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that staff perpetrated the crime.
Solo women travelers should take
gender-specific travel precautions.
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