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.