Visitor Safety & Security

Visitor Safety Tips

Tourism NSW, through ASCOT's National Visitor Safety Working Group, is involved in initiatives to improve visitor safety.

To help visitors learn more about travel safety in Australia, two tools have been developed.

Travel Safely in Australia Brochure

For the consumer, this brochure summarises the major safety considerations when travelling in Australia. The brochure contains messages in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

NSW has successfully negotiated airside distribution rights for the safety brochure. Consequently, Tourism NSW is able to distribute over 2000 of these brochures weekly from Sydney International Airport.

Click here for more information

National Visitor Safety Handbook

To ensure that safety messages are consistent, accessible and complete, a handbook has been produced containing all travel safety messages relevant to Australia. The handbook is designed as a reference tool for producers of tourism publications and website editors, to assist them to inform consumers about safe travel.

Click here for more information

Download multilingual versions of brochure

Travel Safely - English (PDF file, 755kb)
Travel Safely - German (PDF file, 729kb)
Travel Safely - French (PDF file, 807kb)
Travel Safely - Italian (PDF file, 777kb)
Travel Safely - Chinese (PDF file, 626kb)
Travel Safely - Japanese (PDF file, 550kb)
Travel Safely - Korean (PDF file, 652kb)
Travel Safely - Spanish (PDF file, 774kb)

Download Safety Videos

Note: To view these videos you must have Windows Media player or equivalent installed on your PC. Download time varies depending on your browser type.

	In the water Surf and Water Safety (mpeg file, 3.1mb)
	On the road Driving Safety (mpeg file, 4.5mb)
	Out and about Pedestrian Safety (mpeg file, 1.7mb)
	Enjoying nature Bushwalking Safety (mpeg file, 2.7mb)
	In rural and remote Australia Outback/Driving Safety (mpeg file, 2.9mb)

Airport Security

Travel safe. Travel SECURE.

The Australian Government has developed a new traveller-friendly website, TravelSECURE, to help visitors navigate the security checks at the airport quickly and easily and to ensure visitors are adequately prepared for their trip.

TravelSECURE is an easy-to-use resource that consolidates traveller and transport security information, videos and fact sheets in one easy-to-find place.

The site includes information about prohibited items, passenger and baggage screening, and liquids, aerosols and gels (LAGs) restrictions. Travellers will also find recommendations about travelling with children, laptops, medicines and sports equipment.

Key pages from TravelSECURE have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish to ensure greater accessibility.

Visit http://travelsecure.infrastructure.gov.au for more information.