All travel requires planning and preparation.
You schedule flights, pour over travel books looking for unique places to visit, and carefully choose the hotels that will best suit your needs. It's just as important to preplan your safety. Before any trip, you need to realistically identify any potential threat, whether it is pickpockets who snatch wallets and handbags or terrorists looking for hostages. You then need to prepare your security levels accordingly. For example, security levels are vastly different between a stay in a four-star European hotel and a trek through the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan or a vacation at a resort in Tahiti and the Huallaga Valley in Peru.