Personal Travel Tips

Wear natural fiber clothing (cotton, wool, ect.) while traveling. In case of fire, you are less subject to burns in natural fibers than in nylons and polyesters. Nylons and polyesters melt when exposed to extremely high heat.
Be sure that your luggage is tagged with covered tags protecting your address from open observation. Put your name and address inside each piece of luggage and be sure that all luggage is locked or secured in some fashion.
For luggage and briefcases with two combination locks, reset from the factory combinations to different combinations on on each of the left and right locks.
For luggage with single locks, set the lock on each piece of luggage with a different combination.
Simple plastic tie wraps are the easiest and cheapest method of determining whether or not someone has entered your luggage.
Never place valuables (jewelry, money, and travelers cheques) in your checked luggage.
Showing off your expensive jewelry and flashing wads of money increases your chance of being robbed.
Valuables should be leftat home. Tha rule of thumb is, if you neither want nor can afford to lose it, DO NOT TAKE IT!
Remove old luggage tags from baggage to avoid confusion or the possibility of losing your luggage.
Never leave your bags unattended or in the hands of a stranger.
Never, never accept or offer to carry anything on board the plane for someone else.
Keep the straps of your carry on luggage wrapped around your leg while waiting in the airport.
Consider obtaining a modest amount of foreign currency before you leave your home country.

Business Travel Tips

Do not pack sensitive or proprietary information in your checked luggage.
Double envelope the material and hand carry it.
Do not use a business card on your luggage and avoid putting the company name or any logos on your luggage.
Use your business address and telephone number on your luggage. If possible, use a closed name tag with a cover flap.
Consider making hotel reservations, using your employers street address, without identifying the name of the company. The less known about your travel itinerary, and who you represent, the better.
Guard your conversations so that unauthorized persons are not able to eavesdrop on discussions pertaining to sensitive information. In many countries, employees working around Americans are debriefed by the local intelligence or security services in an effort to learn as much as possible about the activities of American companies and their personnel.
Be careful of all communications. Be aware that the monitoring of telephone, telegraph, and international mail is not uncommon in some countries.
A hostile or even friendly intelligence organization is always on the lookout for sources who are vulnerable to coercion, addictions, greed or emotional manipulation.
Any persons traveling abroad on business should be aware of the fact that they could be targeted by an intelligence agency, security service or, for that matter, a competitor if thay are knowledgable of, or carrying sensitive proprietary information.