A short travel-vlog style dialogue (by Charles Noonan) offering practical safety tips for international travelers: register travel plans with the U.S. Embassy via the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) so the embassy knows your itinerary, and deploy a portable/syncing hotel camera in your room to monitor housekeeping and remotely record incidents, notifying hotel staff when you observe issues.
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Best practices so that people can travel safely. Number one, I'd say register with.
The US embassy. The US embassy.
Has a free 99.
Service for US.
Citizens traveling abroad where.
You can actually type.
Up your itinerary and upload it into a program called Smart Traveler Enrollment Program. So you upload your itinerary to the.
U.S. embassy.
In that country, and now.
The U.S. embassy.
They know what flight you're on, what hotel you're staying at, who is your driver while you're in Mozambique, what tours you're going to be doing, all all of this stuff.
The US Embassy has it.
The next thing that I would do is set up a hotel camera inside of your hotel room. I actually have a portable camera. It syncs directly to my cell phone. I leave this.
Camera propped up in.
My room at all times. Let's say I'm in a country and I leave out my room and I can see on my phone the people who come to clean the room came in twice. Second time, no cleaning supplies. Right? So as I'm on my cell phone watching them, I'm actually emailing the front.