Nowadays, people like to travel, but the most important thing to travel is safety. Especially when women travel alone, they should pay more attention to safety, because if they neglect a little, they may be cheated and robbed. In light of this, they will hurt their money and even affect their personal safety. If you want to have fun, you must keep these ten points in mind.
1. Fully understand the local situation before traveling, and tell your family or friends the travel plan
Collecting information before traveling, knowing more about the safety of some places to go, and what tricks local people often use to cheat tourists and know yourself and your enemy can reduce the occurrence of accidents.
In order to be responsible for your family and protect yourself, it's better to tell your family (or friends) the itinerary you have decided before you travel. It should include the places where you are most likely to be contacted by each place. Even if you don't book a hotel at all and are backpacking, you should also choose several places that you are bound to pass by. You can even leave the data of national tourism service centers to your family to facilitate the contact between relatives and friends.
If it is an outbound tour, you can also report your personal information and itinerary to the Foreign Affairs Department of the government, that is, to let the Ministry of foreign affairs know where the 'nationals' will go. It is their responsibility to maintain your safety and to assist you if necessary. Therefore, it's better to keep the data of consulates around the world with you and leave them to your family.
2. Wear simple and natural clothes and avoid carrying valuables
Try to dress in accordance with the local people's habits. Traveling is not a beauty pageant. Don't show off your money or dress up to attract the attention of gangsters. Every time the camera takes pictures of a scenic spot, it is put into the carry on luggage immediately. When taking a vehicle, put your backpack on your back.
Do not carry valuables when traveling. One is easy to lose and the other is easy to be watched by gangsters. It's better to leave the important things in the safe in the room. If the hotel doesn't have one, it's usually behind the counter. But you have to know that there is no real safe, a small safe in the room, a person can take away, generally the insurance is limited. In places with poor security, if the hotel does not have a safe, it is best to take important items with you when you go out.
3. Choose safe accommodation, avoid no defense, do not know the escape door
Choose safe accommodation, do not covet small and cheap, rent strange houses or low floors.
Don't be unguarded when checking in. Although the doors of many hotels are equipped with elastic devices, they are not elastic enough. Although the doors are closed, they can not be closed tightly. If you don't pull one of them when you go out, you can't lock them well. As a result, it creates opportunities for thieves.
If you know the door is not safe, you can buy a travel safety lock on the Internet first, or you can put the cup or bottle on the doorknob. As long as someone turns the doorknob, the cup or bottle will fall to the ground, scaring the thief away. You can also leave a light when you leave the room and turn on the TV, pretending that there is someone in the room. When it comes to the device for taking electricity from the card, it can be replaced by other paper cards, so that you will not turn off the power because of taking out the room card.
In addition, the first thing to enter a hotel room should be to check the room map posted behind the door to see the location of the fire escape. The vast majority of hotels should have such settings. If you live in a small inn and do not have a map, you should check it in person. If there is a special situation, where can you run.
4. Keep talking in a low voice and don't reveal your personal information
During the journey, try to avoid calling someone's name in the hotel lobby and asking him what room he is staying in. This is also the main reason why tour group members are often required to stay in the car when they arrive at the hotel. The guide will take the key and send it back to the bus.
Who lives in which room, can't let outsiders know, because when the thief dressed decently, pretended to rush to the counter, reported the name and room, and forgot to bring the key, many hotels will believe and help each other open the door.
Don't expose your personal information when traveling. Don't write your name, address and telephone number in big words on your luggage, so as not to write them down to your home for blackmail. For example, when you have boarded the plane and your mobile phone can't be used, you pretend to be nervous and inform your family that you are in a car accident on the way to the airport and are in a hurry to wait for money.
Because many cases are very similar, in order to avoid taking the wrong luggage, you can make an obvious mark on the luggage. For example, stick a sticker and wrap an obvious thing around the handle.
5. Choose friends carefully and call for help in case of crisis
When you meet a stranger outside, you can't say which room it is, even if you talk speculatively and tell him your hotel. Don't think it's a pity to refuse a handsome man's accost. Maybe he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Otherwise, you will hear a knock on the door and ask who it is and who you just met. Do you want to open the door or not? For safety, the hotel staff asked if he was your friend. Do you answer yes or no? You know, a lot of things like sexual assault are started when half baked people knock on the door.
In addition, do not drink a stranger's drink, or feel that the other party is very kind, so easily agree to the invitation, even if the other party is a girl. Women should call for help and whistle in case of emergency, which is the way to make the gangsters feel guilty. In case of disturbance in the elevator, they should make good use of the red emergency button to ask for help. The way to protect themselves is to 'escape quickly, write down the characteristics and call the police immediately'.
6. Don't look at the map on the street
If you travel to a strange place, be sure to prepare a detailed map, and make sure you know every road you plan to take before you go out. Because standing on the street looking around, and then taking out the map to look at the name of the street, is equivalent to telling the gangster clearly that you are a good target. Therefore, we should be in hotels, secret places or sit on the subway seat, the location of good action.
Generally speaking, tourists are most likely to be stolen, robbed and cheated. Even if you go to court soon, it's impossible for you to stay there. In addition, you don't know the language, you don't know the place, you shout nobody understand, he ran into the alley, disappeared, you have no way.
7. Do not enter the dark lane, personal safety or danger
Even if you are caught in the dark lane, don't be careful. Because it's gangster's territory, entering the dark lane will increase your own danger.
You know, robbers are not all improvised. When you are alone in the tourist attractions looking around, it may have become their target. There are too many people in the scenic spots. It's hard for him to start. He will follow you and see where you are going. At this time, if you wander to the lonely alleys, or enter the dark subway corridors and staircases, you will create opportunities for the bad guys.
So the more you come out of the tourist attractions, the more you have to go to the busy places. If the gangsters follow you for a long time, they will leave without any chance to start.
8. Don't show off. Keep your money well
We should avoid the possibility of becoming a sheep or a target. Wearing a couple of blinding maps around your neck, for example. Another example is that you go to famous brand stores and carry bags from several famous stores. Even if you pay for a ticket, the way you look at the money, count the money, and know the strange currency shows your identity.
In order to avoid exposure, it is better to take less money with you, or even no wallet at all, and put medium and small bills in different pockets, so that when you buy small things, you will not show big money.
If you go to a place with poor public security, you can also hide some money in your socks to prevent you from going home without money after being robbed.
9. Don't be competitive in case of robbery
We should remember the truth that "a good man (a good woman) does not suffer from immediate loss.". If you have green hills, you are not afraid to burn without firewood. Unless the surrounding environment is favorable to you, you'd rather break money, even be humiliated, and even save your life. Arrogance can be done in familiar places, not in foreign countries, especially in places where the rule of law is not complete and public order is not appeased.
So no matter you are a boy or a girl, if you encounter a robber without help, you can simply take out the money and give it to him. You can even open your wallet or wallet, show it to the gangster, give him all the money, and ask him to let you keep the necessary documents. Even so, you can't look scornful, like, 'don't you want money? I have it. Take it! 'because the robbers belong to the robbers, he still has self-esteem and even inferiority arrogance. He is more sensitive and easily provoked.
10. Keep alert and avoid unnecessary wandering
When playing outside, do not wander aimlessly and pointlessly. If you keep alert at any time, the gangster will find it difficult to start and turn to other objects.
Walking fast is a good way to avoid being a target, because it shows you know the way, like local people. It also shows that you are energetic and rebellious. You'd better not touch it. Moreover, because you walk fast, it is not easy for those who want to approach you by selling or performing.
In order to avoid being pulled in by people walking on the street at night. When you encounter hostile people approaching, walk or cross the road (but pay attention to safety) to attract the attention of the traffic. If necessary, you can even reach for help.
Don't give freely on the way, because maybe when you give money to a beggar, the next second, you will be surrounded by beggars, unable to get away.