When you’re travelling
independently you want to enjoy your trip, but you also need to think
about travelling safely.
Servas Britain aims to make sure that your Servas visit goes well, and
so its policy is to interview hosts as well as travellers before they
join.
As Servas is based on trust between the host and the traveller, the
interview is an important safeguard to ensure that new members – hosts
and travellers – are responsible and open-minded, and that they fully
accept the aims of Servas.
If you want more information about safe travel when planning your trip,
you might like to look at these websites:
the FCO
(UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office), which gives up-to-date travel
advice country by country. Similar advice is offered by the Australian
Government's travel advice site 'Smartraveller'. If
you are a British national, you may want to
register with the FCO's 'LOCATE'
service, which is intended to ensure that embassy and crisis staff
can provide better assistance in an emergency such as a tsunami or
terrorist attack
MASTA which provides advice on
keeping healthy
while travelling and on vaccinations
Tourism Concern which
gives advice and information on how to minimise the impact of travel on
local cultures