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Safe Foreign Travel

The course provides 101 practical safe travel tips for both first-time and experienced travelers. You will learn how to minimize your risks by lowering your profile overseas.

Learn also to recognize and avoid high-risk locations and situations as well as the pre-incident indicators that warn of a threat to your personal safety. And learn how to defuse and manage potentially violent street/criminal confrontations.

This dynamic, multimedia presentation covers pre-trip preparations, all modes of travel and accommodations, as well as in-country business and social activities. [1 day]

"Instructor is a very knowledgeable person regarding safety. The tips provided can be applied for everyday use as well as for overseas. This is a must for today's culture."

"Very good course and essential for government travelers."

"I will be much more aware when I travel overseas; I will be better prepared. Great tips for foreign travel."

"I think anyone who is traveling overseas should have to take this course. One of the best courses I have taken. I travel quite a bit and still learned lots."

"Valuable information for what to do and what not to do when traveling not only to hazardous areas but anywhere."

"Excellent course, I really enjoyed it."

"A 'must' course. It should be mandatory for all employees."

"Presented information in a well organized manner. Makes listeners aware of potential threats that they were probably never aware of in the past."

"The course was great. A lot of useful information. The real life stories and clips were a great addition to understanding the information presented. I learned a lot in this course and would highly recommend it."

"Instructor had excellent knowledge of subject matter--good use of personal, first-hand experiences--effective us to reinforce ways to prevent personal attacks.

"I am now armed with the basics of awareness. Great course."

"Great class, keeps you thinking!"

"This course provided me more knowledge for my personal travel experiences abroad. It brought to light things I have done in the past overseas, but would think twice about doing on my next overseas trip."

"I will be more alert when I travel."

"This course gave me useful tips on how to avoid questionable situations, and if found in one, what to do to avoid death."

"A great course well organized and excellently presented."

"Great OPSEC overview!"

"Definitely made me think, or re-think about my current strategies and future strategies when traveling."

"A good contrast between real-life examples and people's misconceptions about these kinds of situations. Real-life experience was key to instructor's effective teaching."

"Examples and stories really brought everything into focus."

"All of the CI Centre courses are excellent! Keep up the great work!

"Great info that I will most assuredly use on future trips, business and personal."

"Although I may not travel to an extremely dangerous location in the future, this info can be applied anywhere and could possible save my life."

"Great method of making one aware of the many possibilities of danger against US personnel when traveling abroad and at home in the US--especially given today's environment."

"Great course--good for everyday life, not just when traveling."

"This course should be taken by every employee who will travel to a foreign country, for official business or pleasure!"

"Excellent travel tips. Explained many obvious and not-so-obvious ways to protect self in dangerous areas. Good job in showing how to detect surveillance and avoid potentially dangerous situations."

"Excellent course. His personal experiences really made it interesting."

"Valuable, practical advice."

"This was the greatest class I've ever had!"

"Excellent course with valuable information."

"Great course. More info than I ever expected to get."