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3. OH NO! I HAVE A TRAVEL PROBLEM!

__**SOLVING TRAVEL PROBLEMS. **__

1. Read the following travel scenarios  2. Get into groups of﻿ ﻿ 3-4 and role-play one of the following case studies 3. You will need to use P258-261 of the text and the internet to assist you in providing a solution 4. Please note - [|www.smarttraveller.gov.au] is an Australian website
 * Instructions: **


 * **CASE STUDY 1: LONDON** ||
 * ====You have just arrived in London from the UK and have caught the tube to a Brixton station. We get out of the station and find the nearest public telephone, there you put down all your bags and get out your little black book, which has the number and the address of your friend. You place your bags down behind you and turn towards the phone to start calling your friend. He answers and says he will be there in 5 minutes to pick you up and take you home. As you put the phone down you realise that all your bags are gone! You look around and see a man jumping onto a train with your stuff. The doors close and the train takes off. ====

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 * ====**CASE STUDY 2: ASIA** ==== ||
 * ====You are in a non English speaking country, somewhere in Asia. You and your friends are spending a week partying and celebrating in a tropical location at the beach. You have rented a room in a cheap tourist hotel on a small island, 5 hours by bus from the capital. After a big night of partying, you and a friend decide to go down to the beach and sunbake/sleep for the day. As you do not trust the cleaners in the cheap hotel, you take your passport and your wallet with two credit cards. However, after a few hours in the sun, you decide that you need to go and get a drink. When you go to retrieve your bag from under your banana chair, you realise that it is missing! You are not sure how long it has been missing for as you and your friend have been at the beach for 3 hours. ====

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 * ====**CASE STUDY 3: UNITED STATES** ==== ||
 * ====You worked in a US skit resort for four months, then took time off to travel around the US. You permitted your 12 month travel insurance policy to expire just a few days before your departure for home. You were hit by a car while crossing the road and suffered serious head injuries. You were admitted unconscious to the intensive care and required highly intensive sophisitcated until you were able to be flown back to Singapore. You were still unconscious and returned on a stretcher. The cost to your family for the medical evaluation alone was US$80 000. They have take out a second mortgage on their to raise the funds. ====

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 * ====**CASE STUDY 4: BULGARIA** ==== ||
 * ====You were walking home from a great night out with some new friends in Bulgaria and some strangers start harrassing you. The situation ends in a fight and you seriously injure a local Bulgarian man who happens to be the son of a senior politician. The police arrest you. ====

|| What happens to you now and why? (see :[] for further details) ||
 * **CASE STUDY 5: BANGKOK** ||
 * You see a lovely belt made of snake skin in a market in Bangkok so you negotiate a good price for it and take it back to Australia with you. Upon entry to Australia you are asked to declare any 'animal' items. So you declare the snake skin belt. The customs officials look carefully at it and recognise it as a rare snake nearing extinction due to poachers killing the snakes and selling their skin for retail.
 * TRAVEL STORIES - BANGED UP ABROAD ||
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