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Security
Security for business and leisure travellers.
Travel documents
- Make sure your passport are valid and you have a valid visa if required.
- Bring copies of your passport, visa tickets, credit cards, and drivers licence and travel insurance and leave a copy at home with friends or your work.
- Your family should know Your travel plan and if appropriate your work and you should agree on regular contact and provide points of contacts where you can be contacted.
- Make a list of the most important addresses with phone numbers and email addresses.
- Bring extra passport sized photos which may be need for a new passport or for visa applications.
Health
- Make sure you have the recommended vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis if appropriate for instance by checking www.traveldoctor.info.
- Bring any drugs in the original package to avoid problems explaining the content of anonymous looking pills in the customs. If a prescription drug, bring the prescription.
- Bring extra glasses and contact lenses
Cash and valuables
- Do not change more than necessary.
- Bring more than one credit card and make sure that the credit card is commonly accepted in the country of destination.
- Keep the cash divided in several pockets.
- Have an extra purse with small cash in case of a robbery. The purse should be so small that you have it with you all the time.
- Leave unnecessary valuables at home.
Clothes and luggage
- Be discrete in dressing and choice of luggage.
- Remove company logo and signs from the luggage.
- Mark the luggage with your name both outside and inside.
- The address on the outside should not be readable from a distance.
- Do not keep personal information in the luggage.
- Laptop, mobile phone and other equipment containing information should be kept in the hand luggage.
- The suitcase should be strong and locked.
- Travel light if possible.
Hotel
- Lock the door if possible so it can only be opened from within the room.
- Do not open the door if you do not expect visitors.
- If the hotel staffs calls unexpectedly, call the reception.
- Before going to sleep acquaint yourself with the emergency exit routes.
Security equipment available
- Portable smoke and burglary alarm.
- Smoke mask
- Torch
- Pocket knife
- Rope
Security links
Air Security International
Travel advice from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Travel advice from the Australian Foreign Office
Travel and security advice from the U. S. State Department.
Edited 6. October 2002
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