11 Tips for Traveling Confidently in 2018

There’s another terror attack in the news, perhaps in the place you were thinking of taking a holiday to next year. It starts making you question whether you should change your plans, or maybe even just stay home.

And it doesn’t just stop at terror attacks. There are other worries that come with a trip abroad – getting mugged, a medical emergency, local violence, dangerous unforeseen weather, among others.

You take a risk every time you walk out your door, but that is the case at home as well as abroad.

Having these unfortunate events happen abroad may seem more overwhelming, because you’re in a foreign place where you probably don’t know many people. You’re far away from everything that’s familiar, and that makes the stress of dealing with a negative situation worse.

Although these negative experiences can happen anywhere in the world, and you don’t usually have the luxury of knowing when they’re going to happen, you can still be ready in other ways.

Here are 11…