Recently, I talked to a dentist who is heading to Nepal as part of a health care mission. He had purchased travel insurance, but he had not yet learned about e-Travel Alerts, an extremely valuable online information service that posts security updates several times each day for travelers worldwide.
Then, once he started looking at e-Travel Alerts that focused on Nepal, he was amazed at what he was finding out. He had not known, for example, that Nepal was in the throes of a bird flu epidemic and that travelers were being warned to stay away from chickens in the marketplaces and birds in general. He had also not known that, when in Nepal, visitors are required to convert about $20 a day into Nepalese rupees and at the end of their trip are not allowed to convert more than 10% of this money back into their original currency. Finally, he hadn’t heard that, at any point during his visit, Maoists could stop him and ask for “donations.” If he chose not to donate, he also discovered, his guides could be beaten up.
Needless to say, he was delighted he had come upon this resource. When he headed to Nepal, he realized, he would now be much better prepared for challenges he might encounter.
This is just a small sampling of the valuable information that’s readily available on e-Travel Alerts and not available on the online, broadcast, and print news sources we usually depend on. We know, for example, that, because of the current political unrest, traveling to Egypt is probably not a good idea in the short term. But do we know about some of the other political or social issues that might affect a trip to countries throughout the Middle East, Africa, or Asia? Do we know about all the possible hurricane threats in the Caribbean? Do we know about the latest airport delays or shutdowns in Europe? Do we know about potentially dangerous volcanic activity in various nations from Iceland to Indonesia? No matter where you are traveling, e-Travel Alerts has the world covered.
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