Travel Tip #1
Let’s start with one of the essential travel tips. Long before you book your flights to travel overseas, get your documentation in order. This will help you pass through immigration and customs and get on your way. Ensure that you have a current passport. If you don’t have one, plan to get one as soon as possible to avoid further delay in your travel.
Travel Tip #2
You must remember many countries need a visa, while others don’t, depending on your passport. To get a visa, your passport must be valid for at least six months. Depending on your destination country and the visit you are making, e.g., tourism, holiday, business, etc., you will need an original copy of an invitation from your host in the destination country. Take those documents to the local embassy of your destination country to get your visa issued to you. So, plan these steps if a visa is necessary for your trip.
Travel Tip #3
Next, to passport and visa, make sure that you discuss travel health requirements. Your destination country may need up-to-date vaccinations. Consult your family physician, general practitioner or a health centre so you are ready to get any vaccinations you may need.
Travel Tip #4
Get a travel insurance to prepare for the unlikely event you may meet a health emergency overseas. If you have an injury or have a severe illness overseas, you may need help to get medical care and to get moved back home for long-term care. Travel insurance can be useful for making claims. You can make claims if you miss your flight or if something delays your flight, or even need emergency money due to theft or burglary, or if you lose your travel documents while abroad.
Travel Tip #5
Be sure your existing medical documents are available and copied in several places should you become separated from them. You may need to use insurance information, emergency contacts, information on medication and emergency contacts, especially if you lose your possessions overseas. One way to retrieve this information is to scan essential documents and store them on the internet, e.g., on an email file you sent to yourself, or in a folder, you can get to from anywhere in the world.
Travel Tip #6
Use much of the same travel safety tips that keep you safe traveling at home, when preparing to go to a foreign country. If this trip is your first visit, you may not have knowledge of the town or city you are visiting. Before you travel, you need to find out about the safe places to stay and dine and what neighbourhoods to avoid. Read current travel books and internet information so you can be ‘streetwise’. But nothing replaces a local contact. So, rely on your host at the other end of your travel plans to recommend to you on, not only where to go but, where to avoid on your visit.
Travel Tip #7
Safety tips while traveling: Use the travel tips from your host well. Ask your host or contact the best way to deal with transport and security in his or her country. Calling a cab without a recommendation may be unsafe in some cities around the world. Avoid going into a cab that is not a reliable carrier who may not take you where you demand to go after picking you up at the airport.
Travel Tip #8
Before your visit, understand local practices and rules of conversation about your travel destination. Learn to act properly and be considerate of the host culture. Try to accept local rules and practices.
Travel Tip #9
These tips are only some of the best travel tips around. Keep an open mind and have fun at your travel destination. Please let us know if you have found these travel tips useful.