Travelling Made Easy

Travelling can be very exciting and rewarding. But as any person who will know the experience can also present many challenges. Travellers in a foreign location for instance may require information about their destination, together with a place to eat and sleep. International standards therefore provide key tools for making the experience of a person travelling as smooth and safe as possible.

This crutial considering the important role tourism plays in todays global economy and life style. We can nolonger imagine the world without millions of people that occasionaly cross boundaries both within and between countries in search of work andventure or plain relaxation and other reasons. International standards make travel procedures more efficient. For insatance standards for passports and identity cards ensure that these documents can be recognised with ease around the world by using state of of the art technology build in to widely used travel documents. Such features are not only confirm the authensity and integrity of the document and its contents but also support detection of conterfiets and fraudlant alterationss. In this manner they increase security and safety of travellers and locals alike.

The civil aviation authority can partner with swasa in the adoption of such standards. In addition, ISO country and currency codes are there to simplify travel relatedinformation and procecess. Imagine how complicated it would be to exchanged money if currentcy codes were different from one bank or country to another. There are also standards for instance help people form different origins visiting a particular country to understand where fire and emergency exists are located be at airports or hotels. Just imagine what would be like if each country read signs in foreign scrips or had its own set of symbols or graphic signs to communicate such important information. Tourists would not be able to drive in foreign countries because of the different traffic signs. we all know that many developing countries rely heavily on tourism. Visitors spending on accomodation food and drinks transport entertainment and shoping is an important pillar for many economies. According to WTO tourism organisations tourisms.