by Dan Hensley

Created on: October 24, 2008   Last Updated: October 30, 2008

Travel safety tips for families are not difficult to understand and follow. The most important details in traveling safely starts before you even leave your home. Only a very limited number of people need to know that you are even leaving. Those people should be the two people closest to you whom you have known for an extended period of time.

Knowing who you can trust in order to have optimum travel safety with your family starts with knowing what red flag behviors are. Red flag behaviors are easily recognized in someone who takes more than a normal interest in knowing what possessions you have and where they are kept. Trsuating someone to watch your home is serious business.

The person showing a high level of attentiveness will usually ask questions that are masked to seem innocent such as information that would inadvertantly identify the value of expensive items in your home.The maximum of two trusted people who know you are going on vacation should be the ones to have a copy of the keys to your home or apartment. Travel safety tips for families starts with notifications. Notify your alarm company if you have one, or notify your local Police who should have a Community Relations Officer.

Travel safety tips for families also includes notifying the post office to hold your mail using a procedure called "Vacation Hold". One thing you want to do after notifying the postal office that you need a vacation hold on your mail is to place your lights and television on a timer which should always follow your normal pattern of behavior when it comes to the time your lights and tv are turned on and off. Excellent travel safety information you should consider is to instruct the person acting as your "Keyholder" to check on your home by performing a drive by or walk by in a discreet manner on a schedule determined prior to your departure.

Travel safety tips continue when you know enough to be alert to your environment at the airport, train station, bus terminal, and rest stops if traveling by vehicle. criminals who prey on travelers will always look for someone who is too engrossed in sight seeing, involved in anything else but their environment. No matter what, travel safety is increased when you never, ever allow someone else such as a stranger to watch or handle your baggage.

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