The Travel Safety Handbook


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The Travel Safety Handbook is 150 pages of solid travel advice boiled down to the most important details to effectively guide you through the stages of researching and planning your next trip, raise your overseas IQ, lower your overall stress and be more productive anywhere in the world.




Travel Security Handbook


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This book provides clarity. The author deals with all major issues around travel security on business and leisure trips in a professionally sound and practical way: What is travel security? What do companies and employers need to be aware of? What risks are business and leisure travelers exposed to? How can they protect themselves? Global Travel Security? A European Perspective and Approach. Using different case examples and practically-oriented recommendations, this book conveys fundamental aspects of professional corporate security organization and creates a solid foundation for security-conscious behavior when traveling - not only in high-risk countries. That's why this guide is suitable for both aspiring security decision-makers and for security-conscious travelers. It should be part of every business and leisure traveler's standard repertoire. Recommendations and best practice from practitioners - for the day-to-day business! Maintain a Low Profile and be a Hard Target!




Holiday & Travel Security Handbook


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more background. Paul is author of Starting Your Own Gardening Business and is based near Brighton. CONTENTS: 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. AUTHOR BIOG: Des Conway has over 20 years' experience in police and commercial security. He uses his additional research and commercial security experience to ensure his own and his family's safety while planning and taking holiday and business trips. Through this and his other security handbooks he is committed to helping people keep themselves and their loved ones safe, wherever they are. 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




The Family Travel Handbook


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Full of practical advice, ideas and inspiration from Lonely Planet's parents to you, this essential guide gives you the lowdown on the wealth of amazing travel experiences around the world - and how to plan and enjoy them with your family. From navigating air and train travel to approaching unfamiliar meals and a change in routine, The Family Travel Handbook encourages curiosity, exploration and independence. This handy trip planner brings all our expertise together into one useful guide that you can refer to for everything from ideas about exploring the great outdoors to how to pack up everything and take the kids on a round-the-world trip. It'll help you to explore more confidently and, if you're willing, take you out of your comfort zone to experience even more remarkable sights and activities. We also include a section of recommendations on the best places to go, whatever sort of trip you're after - from the top five places for infants, toddlers, tweens and teenagers, and the top five budget destinations, to our favourite family-friendly cruises, wildlife-spotting adventures and beach holidays. Whether your family are experienced jet-setters or unsure where to start taking your kids, we'll show you how rewarding and memorable opportunities for family travel exist at every turn. The handbook contains: Getting Ready: Deciding where to go Travelling independently vs taking a package Travellers with disabilities Family finances In Transit: Take to the skies Embrace the open road Let the train take the strain All aboard: cruising with kids On the Ground: Where to stay Where and what to eat and drink The challenges of different ages Exploring the Great Outdoors: Camping Hiking Water-based activities Snow-based activities Travelling sustainably with kids Ready to be Adventurous?: Start small: embrace the possibilities Push your collective comfort zones Be a world nomad Let them fly the travel nest After the Trip: Photography on the road Back home About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.




The Safety Handbook for Women Travellers


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This book is written for all women who want to feel and be safe when they are travelling and on the go. Probably the most comprehensive personal safety travel guide for women anywhere today, the contents of this book have already saved lives. In this amazing book the authors have provided some useful, practical and innovative ways to avoid almost every risk associated with lone female travel. With over 70 key tips lists, what you need to know lists and checklists you have everything you need to consider about travelling alone. Easy to read and full of key points, tips and checklists, this book was inspired by every day experiences and real life situations. Teaching you how to think safe, plan safe and be safe, The Safety Handbook For Women Travellers is much more than just a book because it gives you the knowledge, the skills and the confidence to know what to look for, what to plan for and what to do if things go wrong, which they won't because you will already have read this book before you go




The Solo Traveler's Handbook


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Part of the Traveler's Handbook series offering more stories and tips on solo travel fun and safety, this how-to manual with travel literature will help readers venture out with confidence to discover themselves and the world.




Solo & First Time Travellers' Handbook (eBook PDF)


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A confidence builder for those who want to travel the world.Travel Safe. Travel Smart. Travel Healthy. All the know-how from a travel expert who brings comprehensive, practical information from the decision to go, planning, travelling and returning home and everything in-between. Let's Travel You Happy! Super-informative topics include: - Decide where to go, when and for how long - Savings strategies, budgeting, and planning - Packing to perfection - Passports, Visas, Working holiday - Expert Tips throughout - Inspirational stories and images - Prepare for a happy, healthy, safe journey The ultimate guide to to your destiny of discovering the world. By: Going Travelling? - Travel You Happy




Vegan Travel Handbook


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Whether you've been vegan for years or are travelling as one for the first time, The Vegan Travel Handbook will help you discover, plan and book a huge range of vegan-friendly adventures around the globe. Get essential advice and expert tips on everything from where to go when and the best vegan restaurants, accommodation and cities, to how to stay healthy on the road and order food with confidence. We also reveal unmissable vegan tours, festivals and food trucks. From cooking classes in India to wildlife watching tours in New Zealand, Lonely Planet shows you how to explore the world on a plant-based diet. Explore the wilds of Patagonia, Argentina Go trekking and wildlife watching in Ethiopia Meditate in the mountains in Taiwan Melt any stresses away in a Japanese onsen Wild camp by a pristine lake in Scandinavia Go wine tasting in Piedmont, northern Italy Eat your way around Delhi, Agra and Jaipur Dance and dine the night away in Seville Monitor jaguars in the Amazon Rainforest Savour local produce at a New Zealand farmers' market Spot the 'Big Five' in safari in South Africa Explore the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia Shake up a rum cocktail in the Cayman Islands Road-trip your way up the east coast of Australia Embark on a DIY doughnut tour of the USA's west coast About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.




Safety First


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Aid work has always been a hazardous profession. But now, the dangers appear to be increasing. Safety First makes aid workers aware of the risks they may encounter while working in the field and what they can do to minimise them.




The Sustainable Travel Handbook


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This practical and inspiring guide, the latest in our popular Handbook series, motivates travellers to take a responsible approach to the impact of travelling. Whether you're looking to reduce your carbon emissions, enjoy more a responsible wildlife-watching experience, harness culinary tourism for good or enjoy an eco-friendly city break, this guide has got you covered. Packed with easily-digestible advice compiled by a sustainable travel expert, eco-conscious travellers will be introduced to a wide variety of destinations offering culture, wildlife, luxury, adventure, wellness and much more, as well as subjects such as the development of electric transport, how to reduce your plastic waste and the best ways to visit explore sacred indigenous culture respectfully. With top five and top ten lists discussing the best places to hike, volunteer, scuba dive and snorkel responsibly, as well as where to enjoy sustainable safaris, family trips and the best ways to give back when you travel, no stone is left unturned in this 168-page guide to ethical tourism. Destinations discussed include relatively off-the-map regions of the world, including Guyana, Palau and Siargao in the Philippines, as well as more well-known places, such as Costa Rica, Uruguay and Jordan.