INNOVATION IN TRAVEL RISK
MANAGEMENT & SAFETY
By Toby Houchens

Cost of Risk

San Bernardino

Fort Bragg

Iraq

Senegal

Paris

Brussels

Ivory Coast

San Bernardino

San Francisco
• Property crime up
60% since 2010
• Highest per-capita
property crime rate
of the nation’s top
50 cities

Technology, Trends & Innovations in Travel
• Mobile Tracking
• Predictive Analytics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Virtual Reality
• Wearables
• Crowd-sourcing

Adoption of New Technologies in Travel
• Itinerary Management
• Expense Management
• Planning & Booking
• Customer Experience
• Safety & Security

Innovators in Travel

Lack of Innovation in Travel Risk Management
• 58% of HR professionals rely on Google for risk assessment
data
• U.S. State Department also relies on Google for data
• Intelligence they do use is stale and comes from:
Curated information sources and long duration studies
Country level reports
Aggregated media reports
• Travel managers use outdated and ineffective technologies to
track, check-in and communicate with clients and travelers
• Web apps don’t leverage new technologies
Organizations continue to:
• Focus on post-crisis solutions
• Be let down by generalized, ineffective threat alerts

Unconventional Travel Risk Management
“Effective decision-making tools, due diligence, and intelligence should form the foundation of
any TRM (travel risk management) program” - Charles Brossman - author of “Building a
Travel Risk Management Program”
• Leverages communities and emerging technology with near
real-time knowledge of situations and events
• Analysts gather, validate, and assess data from multiple sources
to provide the most detailed, applicable, and geo-relevant
intelligence
• Focus on pre-crisis opportunities and due diligence

HARNESSING THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY

Travel Recon offers businesses, organizations, and individuals next-
generation, destination intelligence tools and unconventional travel
and personal risk management capabilities to create or enhance
duty-of-care and travel risk management programs with maximum
user acceptance.
For individual travelers and
organizations requiring
relevant due diligence and
destination intelligence for
their employees and clients.
A duty-of-care, tracking, and
communication solution with
customizable dashboards for
managers.
A community based safety
and security mobile app
providing near real-time,
crowd-sourced threat alerts

A community based safety and security mobile app providing near
real-time, crowd-sourced threat alerts
GORECON FEATURES
• Community reporting
• Social communication
• Check-ins & tracking
• Emergency button
• Gamification/ranking system
(motivation)
• Recon Map view
• Destination Threat Ratings
GAMIFICATION
Phase 1: Motivation to help your community.
Simple leaderboard and social sharing of
scores, and ranks identified.
Phase 2: Recruit, Advocate, Protector, and
Operator ranking titles. Detailed mission
initiatives. Missions from headquarters to verify
crime or risk in specific area.
Phase 3: Group atmosphere to compete with
your fellow agents when performing missions.

Recon Maps

Alerts

Emergencies

Intelligence Reports