Monday, July 20, 2009

PERSONAL SECURITY

Key Advice

- Stay alert
- Look after your passport - it is your most valuable possession when travelling internationally. Keep it and any air tickets in a safe place and keep a photocopy an spare photographs with you
- Avoid drawing attention to yourself
- Remember - possessions are replaceable , your are not !

Before you travel

Ensure you are properly informed about the area you are visiting, including :

- social and political climate
- organised crime and corruption
- possibility of terrorism
- areligious or ethnic extremism or unrest
- area to avoid