We all want to be able to travel and take holidays. But we also have to be more and more aware of the risks that involves. By reading this book, the average person will be much better equipped to plan a safe journey and an enjoyable holiday. It covers: from coping with foreign currency, to avoiding mosquitoes; from what to avoid eating and drinking, to deep vein thrombosis; and from holiday crime to protecting yourself against terrorism. This book identifies the traveller's vulnerabilities and offers over six hundred simple and affordable countermeasures that the reader can adopt to greatly reduce or even avoid those risks.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Planning 3. Health 4. Travel Out 5. At Your Destination 6. Travel Back 7. Terrorism 8. Next Steps 9. List of useful web sites