Insurance Association Survey Details Top Travel Concerns

Even eight years after the 9/11 tragedy, 73 percent of Americans say that concern over safety and security will not deter them from traveling overseas. However, nearly 60 percent say safety and security issues would influence their choice of international destination, according to results of a newly released survey commissioned by the U.S. Travel Insurance Association.

The survey –which asked participants to rank their major traveling concerns- found that 67 percent of those polled said they are moderately to highly concerned over terrorism when traveling internationally, with 58 percent ranking terrorism as their first or second most serious worry. Those issues ranked statistically higher among survey participants aged 45 to 64.

Quality of law enforcement was second only to terrorism as a concern for Americans traveling internationally, cited by 65 percent of respondents; fear of muggings was a concern for 61 percent of participants, and kidnappings and abductions on foreign soil were cited as a major concern by 40 percent of those surveyed.