Cambridge Scholars Publishing Safety Essentials for Business and Leisure Travel: Air, Land, Sea and during Pandemics!

At this moment in time, when the world is only just beginning to recover from the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the research in this book makes for essential reading. It will serve to help re-establish confidence and reduce anxiety in business and leisure travellers who are planning to embark on new travel experiences in a world impacted by longer-lasting armed conflicts, increased global violence, and higher frequencies of natural disasters. This book blends in-depth academic research around global risk mitigation with unique perspectives on business and leisure travel safety, narrated by authors who have extensive knowledge of security and risk mitigation systems. Each page contains easy-to-follow advice for domestic and international travel, but differs from other books, in that it addresses the hard issues of travel safety (such as theoretical research around risk mitigation), in lieu of setting the focus solely on the soft issues (like itinerary planning) which tend to be the focus of many travel publications today. Moreover, unique to this book is an extreme travel section adapted to business and leisure travellers, which makes for compelling reading and deals with kidnapping, risk mitigation and contingency planning. It incorporates the real-life experiences of one of the authors, who survived torture and abduction, and whose experiences now inform pre-deployment training for Australian Defence Force personnel for operations in armed conflict. This book blends the female and male voice into a narrative that combines the perspectives of professional security experts with common sense travel advice. The research that has gone into this book is essential reading for anyone who intends to embark on business or leisure travel, either in their own country or overseas, or who is interested in studying travel from an academic viewpoint. Review “A gem of a book, offering common sense and practical advice to travellers of all kinds who may find themselves in confronting situations. Few travel guides embrace the subject so comprehensively.”Jim Truscott, OAMCEO Boardroom Closer; former Australian SAS Regiment Officer About the Author Following a comprehensive foundation in Military Counter-Intelligence with the Australian Defence Force, David Birkett has worked across the three tiers of government, and in the public and private sectors in the water, power, mining, oil/gas, and transport industries. He has specialised in risk, crisis, and emergency management and planning. Kay Danes has contributed to the development of comprehensive solutions for business continuity, risk management, travel safety, cultural and key leadership engagement. She has enjoyed a career working with Australian and foreign government departments, academia, military, law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies, and non-government, humanitarian, and private sector organisations in armed conflicts, disasters, and other complex emergencies.