What Your Travel Agent Won’t Tell You! is designed to get you home
safely when you travel abroad. In an era when the government issues
travel warnings like a policeman does traffic tickets, you need the
edge this book gives you. The checklists help you minimize the
dangers. They show you the steps you need to take to get out of, and
stay out of, danger while traveling.
Anywhere you forget to ensure your own safety can become the most
dangerous place in the world. A diving trip to an Asian resort can
turn you into a terrorist hostage; a flight in Europe can be
hijacked; fire in a hotel is a danger anytime, anywhere.
This book is a blueprint designed to assist you in making the
individual decisions that collectively -- like the bricks and boards
of a house -- make up your security structure. The checklists here
are based on the extensive experience of four international
travelers who have faced terrorists and other dangers aboard. The
checklists are designed to thwart would-be attackers, whether
criminals or terrorists.
Trying to remember a universe of security suggestions would be every
bit as difficult as trying to remember where every nail, brick and
board goes in a house. That is why this book has been laid out as a
series of checklists -- blueprints that can help YOU make the right
decision for yourself at the appropriate time.
These lists of tactics, techniques and procedures provide a high
degree of protection and also serve as both practical and
psychological deterrents to criminals and would-be terrorists.
Check off the items, and observe the suggestions, on each pertinent
list. You will be erecting a defensive wall that will help prevent
untoward encounters and dangerous incidents. Preventing an incident
is far easier and more effective than attempting to correct a bad
situation. The listed items the bricks -- in this book are steps
that, if followed, are preventive rather than reactive. In short,
they guide you to deal with a situation before it becomes a crisis
rather than correcting a situation that has already turned nasty.
No one can become a security expert overnight, but this handy
checklist of tips and rules of thumb ones you can refer to as you
progress in the your travels will serve to protect you and your
assets. The knowledge you gain in the first reading, even if
seemingly forgotten, may well come back to you when you need it
most. The information and understanding will give you more
confidence and may help eliminate behavioral inaction -- the tendency
to "freeze" during a crisis.
The list format was specially designed to make this information more
usable when you need it most under pressure.
The authors regularly use the items in these checklists. They need
to. They have to get back from some of the most dangerous locations
in the world.
About the Authors
Four security leaders with major corporate firms routinely travel to the
most dangerous places in the world. Three are former Special
Operations officers -- Navy SEALs and a Green Beret -- who were trained to survive
in the toughest situations.
The fourth is an award-winning writer and an expert on insurgency. They give you the
checklists
they use themselves to return safely from their dangerous work.
Title: What Your Travel Agent Won't Tell You
Author: Wade Ishimoto, Mark Monday, Dan'l Steward, and Gary
Stubblefield
Format(s): | Paperback
Pages: 124
