Traveling Safely

Travel Apps

You may want to install these apps on your mobile device.

The Mobile Passport app speeds you through U.S. Customs at 25 airports

Key Features

• Authoritative recommendations from the CDC
• During-travel features available offline (no data connection needed)
• Fully customizable to do list and packing list
• Emergency services phone numbers for every destination

  

FlightStats is a provider of real-time global flight data to individuals across the travel ecosystem. They offer a host of Flight Data Services for quick and easy integration. We make this data available through an app for your phone.

  

CDC’s TravWell app helps you plan for safe and healthy international travel. Build a trip to get destination-specific vaccine recommendations, a checklist of what you need to do to prepare for travel, and a customizable healthy travel packing list. The app also lets you store travel documents, keep a record of your medications and immunizations, and set reminders to get vaccine booster doses or take medicines while you’re traveling.

  

Eat – Food that is cooked and served hot or from sealed packages
Don’t Eat – Food from street vendors or unwashed or unpeeled raw fruits and vegetables

Drink – Water, sodas, or sports drinks that are bottled and sealed or hot coffee or tea
Don’t Drink – Tap or well water and fountain drinks.

Jet lag symptoms

• Disturbed sleep like having insomnia
• Daytime fatigue
• Poor concentration and functioning
• Constipation and diarrhea
• Feeling sickly
• Mood changes

This guide, is filled with real-life tips and strategies to keep you from becoming a victim overseas. Hopefully you may never need to use some of the information provided. But reading this guide, and knowing some of this information, could also save your life. At the very least it may save you hours and frustration trying to undo fraudulent charges, a stolen identity and ruined credit scores.

Medical advice for travelers and expatriates such as:

• Basic Overseas Health
• Creating a Travel Medical Kit
• How to Use Travel Medical Insurance
• The 10 Commandments of Travel Medicine
• What To Do in an Emergency?
• Best online medical resources and apps available today