A recent survey reveals that in high risk areas, over 4,700 international business travellers value specific travel alerts and travel tracking capability.

The International SOS survey showed that 60 per cent of respondents travel to what they feel to be high risk destinations once a year and one in five say they have travelled to high risk areas five times a year or more.

A huge 82 percent of respondents reported that they were comfortable or very comfortable with their travel destination being tracked and receiving travel alerts to their mobile whilst they are travelling to foreign destinations.

The survey revealed that international business travellers placed being informed on health and security risks whilst travelling to specific destinations as of ‘high importance’ and cared less about the types of privacy issues related to location tracking than has been seen in other sectors of travel.

Business travellers rated the type of information they would like to receive from their employers or travel providers and the level of importance to them. The availability and location of quality medical services in a specific city was the most important followed by disease risks, vaccination advice and medication availability.

A modest 21 per cent of travellers use travel related applications on their mobile phone and from the respondents who do use these apps, the ability to call for emergency whilst travelling was rated as the most important.