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Travel Can Be Murder : A business traveler's guide to personal safety

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One of the very first travel specific risk management contributions. Loads of "what ifs" and scenario styled content but format and the overload of information will be lost on your average traveler or executive. Risk managers or security professionals will benefit if not for a refresher on the end-to-end demands of mitigating travel threats, then to educate more specifically what types of scenarios will be faced by your average traveling executive.

707 total tips!

Great reference material or training development tool but not for everyone.

Unless your a travel security professional, your time would be better spent with an afternoon chatting to someone who is and incrementally applying some of the lessons and principles in your everyday travel habits.

If you have never been out of Greenbow, Alabama in your entire life, this book is just the thing for you! If you have the least bit of research capability or can spell Google, you can find every idea in this book someplace else for free. It is a collection of utterly obvious ideas and offers nothing novel. Some of the suggestions are flat wrong and otherwise risky. Example: leave your passport in the hotel safe. Bad idea. Quite a few countries require foreigners to keep their passport on their person at all times. If you are going to travel internationally to a new country, do yourself a favor and do the research the old fashioned way.

Leave this book for Mr. Gump.

This book is chockfull of easy to follow tips that might possibly save your life. Whether you are travelling for business or pleasure, the valuable information gained from reading this book will make your trip a lot more enjoyable in today's climate.
What's more, the contents are put forward in an easy to read format that even the novice will grasp.
A must for the business traveller and those that serve the business traveller.

Maybe it is the revelation that two historic enemies, Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, now have state-of-the-art weapons of destruction, but I'm feeling a bit paranoid about travel again. If you're similarly spooked, check out the second edition of "Travel Can Be Murder," a practical, easy-to-follow guide to on-the-road safety. Written by psychologist Terry Riley, the paperback offers more than 600 useful and thought-provoking tips. You've read most of the information before, but consider this a refresher course on paranoia, the traveler's best friend.

Kidnappings in India and the Philippines. Violent robberies in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Washington, D.C. Hotel fires in Las Vegas and Havana. How can a business traveler keep safe while on the road? This book tries to answer that question, and for the most part, it does so in fine fashion. International terrorism, plane hijackings, hostage situations, and street crime have made the security executive an important resource for the peripatetic business person. This pocket-size resource provides an easy, convenient way of informing the corporate road warrior of the dangers that exist, how to avoid them, and how to escape them. Its small size also makes the book easy for an executive to pack with belongings so that he or she can have an on-site reference. The simple chapter layout and titling make it easy to pick out topics of immediate interest, such as dealing with hotel fires, using public facilities, or preparing for a trip on short notice. The book is written in such an easy prose style that it makes good reading for a short plane flight--though a lot of information is squeezed into the book's 185 pages. ...this is a valuable little book

This is a great book for anyone who doesn't have a lot of traveling experience, or someone who does!