Travel document
- 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 plans 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.eu
- 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
Also see:
Travel advice from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Travel and security advice from the U. S. State Department.
