Chapter 14

• Passports - official document issued by a government, certifying the holder's identity and citizenship.
• Diplomatic - issued to diplomats going overseas
• official - for government employees traveling on government business.
• regular - for people traveling for personal, leisure or business reasons.
• Visa - is an endorsement or stamp placed in a passport by official of an intended country of visit.
• Vaccination Certificates - carte jaune or yellow card is an international certificate of vaccination or prophylaxis and it is issued by the world health organization.
• yellow card should be kept in the holder's passport.
• Mandatory immunization - universally required vaccination is yellow fever.
• Routine immunization - needed to receive boosters of these.
• Recommended immunization - dependent on destination, purpose of travel, duration of travel, or level of anticipated contact with locals.
• Travel Advisories - warn people going abroad about dangerous condition in specific countries.
• Customs Regulation - are restrictions imposed by certain countries on the value and kind of items that can be brought into and taken our of its territory.
• Foreign Exchange - refers to fluctuating rate in which the money of one country can be exchanged for the money of another.
• Local currency - the money used in a particular country.
• Banks are the best places to exchange money.
• Value-added tax (VAT) - is a form of sales tax.
• Departure tax - is a fee charged by the country when a person is leaving the country.
• Baggage allowance - is one piece of luggage not to exceed 20 kilos for check-in and one hand-carry not to exceed 7 kilos.
• Jet lag - refers to the sleeping, waking and concentrating problems travelers experience when they fly long distances.
• Customs - requested to open their bags by the agents.
• Transit lounges - Place where connecting flights stops.
• reconfirmation - calling the airline 48 hours before departure to reconfirm a reservation is mandatory.
• In-flight shopping - FA operate small in-flight, duty-free shops on international flights.
• Documentation - FA distributes this, these are the landing cards and customs immigration forms.