Travel-advisory site: CIA World Factbook
Best for: Country background from spies. It's not all cloak-and-dagger at "the Company." The more you know about your destination, the safer you'll be. Use the site's Quick Links t... More
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2010-08-05 15:15:22 UTC By T+L
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2010-08-05 15:10:59 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: Safe Travel from New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Best for: State Department alternative. The mix of travel news and specific country information is useful, as is the color-coded risk-level assessment. More
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2010-08-05 15:08:09 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: World Travel Watch
Best for: Local news. A compilation of news reports from two award-winning adventure-travel journalists who became frustrated by overly general travel warnings and at seeing entire... More
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2010-08-05 15:04:50 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Best for: State Department alternative. Unlike the U.S. State Department's three-tier system (Travel Warnings, Travel Alerts, and broad "Country Specific Information"), the Aussies... More
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2010-08-05 14:38:21 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: ipresscenter.com
Best for: Local news. Get the skinny on current events from online English-language newspapers in your destination. More
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2010-08-05 14:35:27 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: Overseas Security Advisory Council
Best for: Daily security updates. OSAC is a partnership of U.S.-owned businesses, other private-sector interests, and the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security that e-ma... More
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2010-08-05 14:34:00 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: World Health Organization
Best for: Health and medical advice. Hypochondriacs, beware. WHO provides health overviews, news of outbreaks and crises, and risk factors for nearly 200 countries. More
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2010-08-05 14:32:27 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: Canada’s Office of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Best for: State Department alternative. The site's Travel Reports and Warnings use a four-tier system and often focus on specific regions of concern rather than tarring an entire n... More
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2010-08-05 14:22:03 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: Centers for Disease Control
Best for: Health and medical advice. Click on the CDC's interactive destinations map for updates on disease outbreaks around the world, recommended vaccinations, and other health p... More
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2010-08-05 14:11:36 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Best for: State Department alternative. The U.K.'s system of travel reports and warnings is updated every three months or less-much more frequently than the State Department site. More
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2010-08-05 14:09:35 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: Onlinenewspapers.com
Best for: Local news. For those travelers who are conversant in the local language, onlinenewspapers.com offers even more resources-thousands of newspapers in nearly every nation. More
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2010-08-05 14:06:57 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: Travellr
Best for: Live destination updates. Have a question about security (or almost any other topic) in your destination? Just ask Travellr, where your query is answered by an internatio... More
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2010-08-05 14:05:43 UTC By T+L
Travel-advisory site: ASI Group
Best for: Daily security updates. This global risk-management firm will send you its free daily Hot Spots briefing, with threat-level analyses and security news from countries arou... More
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2010-08-04 16:02:08 UTC By T+L
Mobile App: Stay healthy
An essential part of your digital first-aid kit, MPassport will help you find nearby doctors, dentists, pharmacies, and hospitals and schedule appointments in 20 different cities w... More
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2010-08-04 15:59:54 UTC By T+L
Mobile App: Find a restroom
Using your GPS location, address, intersection, or zip code, Sit or Squat provides you with the nearest restrooms, along with maps and even candid user ratings and reviews. Cost: F... More
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2010-03-16 15:14:50 UTC By T+L
How to fight jet lag
According to Dr. David Rapoport, director of the Sleep Medicine Program at NYU’s School of Medicine, studies increasingly suggest that your pretravel ritual is key: modifying you... More
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2010-02-10 13:29:39 UTC By T+L
Wear a helmet in Saigon—it’s the law!
In fall 2007, Saigon passed a law requiring helmets-helmets!-for all adults on motorbikes. (Children, for some insane reason, are exempt from this.) Overnight, the city was inundat... More
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2009-12-02 12:50:26 UTC By T+L
Tips to avoid travel scams
Travel light and leave the nonessentials at home. Blend in. Don’t dress like an affluent tourist. Trust your instincts. If something smells fishy, it probably is. Ask your hotel ... More
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2009-12-02 12:49:26 UTC By T+L
Watch for thieves at security-checkpoints
The Scam: Before you walk through the metal detector at airport security, a person from behind cuts ahead of you. As he tries to walk through the metal scan... More
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2009-12-02 12:31:23 UTC By T+L
Taxi scam in Istanbul
The Scam: You’re paying a fare with a 50-lira note. The driver drops it on the floor and switches it to a 5-lira bill, which looks very similar. He then arg... More
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2009-12-02 12:26:32 UTC By T+L
Don't fall for Moscow's "Missing Cash" scam
The Scam: A pedestrian bumps against you and drops something. “If you pick it up and attempt to return it, you’ll find you’ve got a bagful of banknotes and ... More
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2009-12-02 12:25:08 UTC By T+L
Avoid the "Snatch and Follow-up Steal" trick
The Scam: As travelers with suitcases wait for a cab, a man rides by on a bicycle, slices the strap of a seemingly random woman’s purse, and rides off with ... More
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2009-12-02 12:23:35 UTC By T+L
The "bus 64" sting in Rome
The Scam: Bus 64 passes many of Rome’s most famous historic sights, so it’s hugely popular with tourists—and pickpockets. Working in teams of three or four,... More
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2009-12-02 12:22:11 UTC By T+L
"Gypsy Baby Toss" Scam
Where: Italy, Eastern Europe The Scam: Here’s a variation of the Newspaper Attack, as told by Peter Greenberg, travel editor of CBS ... More
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2009-12-02 12:20:11 UTC By T+L
Watch out for the "tumbling woman"
Where: London but could happen anywhere. The Scam: “If there’s a commotion, assume it’s a fake to distract the victim of a pickpocke... More
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