03-06-2013, 06:08 PM
Female traveler here.
I would recommend the state dept. website for whatever country she plans to visit. There is very good, up to date information there for safety and crime prevention, specific to that country. Here is Jamaica, for example, a country with pretty serious crime problems.
People usually get robbed because they make it easy for the criminal by carrying expensive items (like cameras and cell phones) in plain view and have an easy to grab back pack or wallet in the back pocket.
You can get robbed or attacked in the hotel room of an nice resort in a nice part of a big city just as well as in an isolated area. It's just good to know and plan before you go (which your family is obviously doing now.)
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw..._1147.html
(Pepper spray is illegal in Jamaica, and legal in the DR, for example. You can find that out at the state dept. website for each country.)
I would recommend the state dept. website for whatever country she plans to visit. There is very good, up to date information there for safety and crime prevention, specific to that country. Here is Jamaica, for example, a country with pretty serious crime problems.
People usually get robbed because they make it easy for the criminal by carrying expensive items (like cameras and cell phones) in plain view and have an easy to grab back pack or wallet in the back pocket.
You can get robbed or attacked in the hotel room of an nice resort in a nice part of a big city just as well as in an isolated area. It's just good to know and plan before you go (which your family is obviously doing now.)
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw..._1147.html
(Pepper spray is illegal in Jamaica, and legal in the DR, for example. You can find that out at the state dept. website for each country.)