Don't be a headline

Dan with the Planet Wise flag in snow-bound up-state New York, Winter 2003

Travel safety training courses from the safe travel experts

Planet Wise offers exceptional training to people travelling to far off lands. Whatever your travel purpose or destination our short programmes bring you experience and practical skills developed over years of specialist travel around the world from a team of dedicated travel experts.

Travel Safety Training Courses

Our travel safety courses are ideal for gap-year students planning to travel on their year-off, older travellers who are new to independent or "adventure" travel, as well as business travellers from across the UK and abroad. We offer either a one day course designed as a refresher or a three day programme aimed at those with little or no independent travel experience.

Whichever course you choose you'll find them to be fun, interactive and challenging. You'll leave stimulated, confident and raring to go.

Gap Year Student?

Our 3-day course has been specially designed for you

New to Independent Travel?

1-day courses to refresh your knowledge

Travelling on Business?

Business Traveller? Stay safe abroad with Planet Wise Corporate Training Services visit planetwise.net/business

Not sure which course is for you? Call us on 0870 2000 220 and one of our staff will be happy to advise you

Know before you go

As a partner in the Know Before You Go campaign, we are working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to do all that we can to help British travellers stay safe overseas. Before you go overseas, check out the FCO website at www.fco.gov.uk/travel. It is packed with essential travel advice and tips, and up-to-date country information.

Are You Planet Wise?

1 in 4 backpackers is involved in a serious incident while travelling

Would you know how to stay safe in these real-life scenarios? Could you prevent the situation getting out of control? Would you know what to do if it did?...

You arrive at the border between India and Nepal at 11:30pm to catch a pre-booked bus to Kathmandu. The bus is not there. The border post is deserted but for a group of drunken, gun-toting border guards. They approach and offer you a bed for the night...
what do you do?

You're on a train in Peru in a secluded carriage with another couple. You get talking to them and they offer to buy you a drink...
what do you do?

You're in a bus travelling between Quito and Tena, on a steep downhill section of dirt road. You notice that the speed of the bus is increasing dramatically, and a sharp corner is looming up ahead...
what do you do?

Not sure?... Don't be a headline.
Take a Planet Wise course before you go.

 

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