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Foreign Trip Travel Insurance and Evacuations

by Scott West in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Travel. Posted August 6, 2015

One of my clients recently requested foreign trip travel insurance to Kurdistan through a major insurance company. While discussing the proposal with the underwriter, I asked if Kurdistan was on a no-travel list. Her response: “Oh, it should be fine!” Somewhat perplexed by her reaction, I politely informed her that Kurdistan is a province in ...

Ebola and Terrorism Threaten African Tourism

by David Pratt in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted August 6, 2015

African tourism was severely impacted by the global recession that started around 2008. In 2013 we started seeing signs of a recovery, with the number of tourists increasing by over 5%, or three million, over 2012. This increase created a positive anticipation that 2014 would be the year in which normality returned to the tourism ...

Weather Channel Unhappy About This Year’s Hurricane Season?

by Scott West in Travel. Posted August 6, 2015

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is humbling forecasters by shaping up as the first in almost two decades without a significant storm, confounding predictions (for the fourth year in a row) that this year would be more active than normal. We now find ourselves several weeks past the season’s statistical peak, with nothing to indicate a ...

Will Kazarian Change the O-1 Visa?

by Gary Endelman in Legal, Travel. Posted August 6, 2015

Co-authored by Cyrus D. Mehta The value of the O-1 visa is its flexibility, an adaptive quality that enables it to respond to the different needs of different petitioners. Any formulaic approach that restricts the full and open expression of such subtlety not only reduces the value of the O-1 but undermines its bedrock utility. ...

Are You Keeping Your Smartphone Smart?

by Harris Schwartz in Safety & Security, Technology, Travel. Posted August 6, 2015

More and more companies are empowering their workforce and executives to stay engaged with the office when traveling, by providing a myriad of devices such as iPhones, iPads, Laptops and other smartphone devices. The threat to corporate information protection increases when employees are traveling for business. Let alone, the physical threat of device theft; the ...

Corporate Travel Focus 2014 – Data Security, Travel Risk Management and Mobile Tech

by tnooz in Risk Management, Safety & Security, Technology, Travel. Posted August 6, 2015

Travel data security, risk management while traveling to emerging countries and demand for additional mobile technology will be the focus for corporates next year, says corporate travel management company HRG. Travel Data Security The UK-based TMC recommends corporates have a global data consolidation strategy in order to mitigate risks associated with data protection and privacy. ...

10 Gadgets to Help You Travel

by Alison Crabb in Technology, Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

Dr. Livingstone cut his way across the jungles of Africa with little more than a shotgun and a shaving kit. You probably ought not to try and sneak a rifle through the airport, but here are some more modern travel gadgets that will come in handy for a boys’ adventure. If you have any other ...

The Ridesharing Economy: Uber and Lyft Business Travel

by Mark Dauner in Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

Ridesharing Most everyone, by now, has heard of Uber and Lyft. In theory, the transportation services they provide make total sense from a consumer, employee and employer standpoint. A customer takes out his or her phone, loads the app, requests a ride and within minutes he or she is in a car on the way to the destination. There’s no doubt ...

Qantas Still the World’s Safest Airline

by Theodore Koumelis in Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

AirlineRatings.com the world’s only safety and product rating website has announced its top ten safest airlines for 2013 from the 448 it monitors. Top of the list is Qantas which has a fatality free record in the jet era (since 1951). Making up the top ten with seven stars for safety and in- flight product are ...

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad

by Petra Risk Solutions in Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad: Although kidnapping of Americans abroad gets all the publicity, other risks await business travelers. Here’s what a business manager needs to know before sending an employee overseas. Before Traveling Research. Before a trip abroad, travelers should gain a general understanding of the country’s cultural, economic and political situation. The U.S. State Department issues Consular Information Sheets for every country of the world with ...

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