- Provide your office with your itinerary.
- Check in with your home office twice a day.
- Prior to departure, register with your embassy in your destination.
- Carry a cell phone programmed with emergency numbers (corporate hotline / contact; embassy number; hotel management / concierge).
- Limit the number of credit cards and amount of cash carried.
- Avoid needless reference to your company / business affiliation.
- Avoid disputes, demonstrations, political rallies and commotions on the street.
- Be observant of where you are and where you are going at all times.
- Be alert if you continue to see the same faces and vehicles, and wary of loiterers.
- If you suspect you are being followed, enter any busy public place and call for help.
- Pre-arrange the transport to pick you up from the airport.
- When not being met by a company or host driver, use hotel cabs.
- Windows should be kept rolled up and doors locked at all times while in a vehicle.
- In regions with known risks, arrange accompaniment if you must leave the hotel / office on foot, particularly after dark.
- Avoid hotel rooms on the first floor or otherwise easily accessible from outside the building.
