Travel Safety Tips

Travel safety tips

  • Learn more about the destination
  • Avoid attention drawing
  • Make hard copies of important documents
    • Travelling documents
    • Health and allergy card
    • List of medication
    • Emergency contact
  • Keep your friends and family updated
  • Beware of public Wi-Fi
  • Safeguard your hotel room
  • Check with your doctor about your trip and related health issues
  • Avoid wild animals such as monkeys, rodents, bats, birds, dogs
  • Eat healthy meals
  • Clean food and water
  • Adequate sleep
  • Avoid drug and alcohol
  • Skin protection
  • Wash hand frequently
  • Appropriate clothing

Common health issues related to travelling (ask your doctor on the specific illness prevention)
  • Asthma
  • Motion sickness
  • Respiratory infections
  • Jet lag
  • Allergy
  • Gastric pain
  • Food poisoning
  • Sunburns
  • Bug/animal bites
  • Accidents
  • Mountain sickness
  • Heat stroke
  • Deep vein thrombosis (long haul flight)


Travel health check list
  • Vaccination (ask your doctor for details)
    • Influenza vaccine
    • Hepatitis A
    • Hepatitis B
    • Pneumococcal vaccine
    • Shingles
    • Chickenpox
  • Doctor prescription of your daily medication
  • Emergency medicine
  • Sunscreen
  • Skin and lip moisturizer
  • Health card stating the medicines you are allergic to, medical history, list of medications, and immunisation records.
  • Travel insurance covering trip cancellation or disruption, medical services, accidents, and medical evacuation
  • Emergency contact card
  • Common medicines
    • Gastric medicines
    • Diarrhoea medicines
    • Antibiotic
    • Allergy medicine
    • Cough and flu medicine
    • Motion sickness medicine
    • Pain killer
    • Sleeping pills (for jetlag)
  • first-aid kit (plaster, gauze, bandage)
  • hand sanitizer / anti-bacterial wipes
  • Mosquito repellents
  • high-quality face mask