Solo Travel Safety for Women
Free solo travel safety guide for women
Travelling alone can feel exciting - until something doesn’t feel right. What if the hotel room, taxi, street or situation feels unsafe?
Download our free guide to learn simple travel safety habits that help you feel more prepared and confident when travelling alone. Includes:
✅ Simple travel habits that can make a real difference
✅ What to do if a person, place, or situation doesn’t feel right
✅ Practical safety tips to help you travel with more confidence and less worry
Created by Julie Waite and Dene Josham from Streetwise Defence, with over 80 countries travelled between them and decades of personal safety experience.
Travelling solo should feel exciting - not stressful
Travelling alone can be one of the most empowering things you ever do.
But that doesn’t mean you never feel vulnerable, anxious, or out of your comfort zone sometimes - especially in unfamiliar places.
Most women don’t want to spend their trip constantly worrying about safety. They just want to feel more prepared, know what to look out for, and feel confident handling situations if something doesn’t feel right.
That’s why we created this guide.
It’s packed with practical advice, simple habits, and useful checklists to help you stay aware, trust your instincts, and enjoy your trip with more confidence and less worry.
Feeling safer allows you to enjoy the freedom of travelling alone
What’s Inside the Guide
This isn’t a quick one-page checklist.
It’s a detailed 20+ page guide built from our own travel experience, Julie’s personal safety insights, and Dene’s 30+ years in security - including working as a bodyguard to A-list celebrities like Angelina Jolie and travelling to some of the world’s most hostile environments.
Inside, you’ll find:
✅ Before You Go - Planning Like a Pro
Smart preparation tips before you even leave home, including destination research, AI safety briefings, travel documents, offline tools, emergency contacts, local laws, eSIMs, WiFi safety, and practical planning habits many travellers overlook.
✅ Accommodation - Smart Hotel & Airbnb Tips
Practical ways to feel safer where you’re staying, from choosing the right room and securing your door to spotting red flags, handling uncomfortable situations, and using simple room safety habits trusted by experienced travellers and cabin crew.
✅ Travel Safety Gadgets Worth Packing
The safety gadgets Julie and Dene use themselves - including personal alarms, travel door locks, torches, apps, and hotel security tools - plus advice on what’s legal, useful, and worth avoiding.
✅ Situational Awareness & Staying Safe Out and About
How to stay aware without becoming paranoid, and how to spot red flags earlier, choose safer routes, avoid distractions, handle taxis and rideshares more confidently, and know what to do if something feels wrong.
✅ Confidence, Boundaries & Trusting Your Instincts
Practical advice for handling uncomfortable situations, unwanted attention, scams, harassment, pressure, and those moments where your gut instinct is telling you something isn’t right.
✅ How to Be a ‘Hard Target’
Simple habits, body language, and awareness shifts that can help you appear more confident, less distracted, and less vulnerable while travelling alone.
✅ Real Travel Scenarios & “What Would You Do?”
Realistic solo travel situations and practical ideas for how to respond - including being followed, unsafe taxis, hotel door scams, and walking alone at night.
✅ Printable Checklists & Quick Reference Tools
Easy-to-use packing lists, pre-trip safety checks, and in-trip reminders to help you feel more prepared, organised, and confident before and during your trip.
Why We Created This Guide
“Travelling has always been one of my biggest passions.
I love the freedom of it - exploring new places, meeting new people, and pushing yourself outside your comfort zone. But I also know that travelling alone as a woman can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially in unfamiliar environments.
That’s a big part of why Dene and I created Streetwise Defence.
We teach practical personal safety and self defence to thousands of people - from school students to global organisations - helping people feel safer, stronger, and more confident in everyday life.
Between us, we’ve travelled to more than 80 countries, from family holidays and solo trips to high-risk environments through Dene’s work in security and personal protection.”
Travel has always been a huge passion of ours - and a big part of why we created this guide
“This guide brings together the travel habits, awareness tips, and practical safety advice we genuinely use ourselves and recommend to the people we train.
Not to scare you out of travelling. But to help you feel more prepared, more confident, and freer to enjoy the experience.”
Julie Waite, Co-founder, Streetwise Defence
Ready to Feel More Prepared for Your Trip?
Whether you’re travelling for the first time or your fiftieth, this guide is designed to help you feel more aware, more confident, and more in control while travelling alone.
Not paranoid.
Not fearful.
Just better prepared.
Because feeling safer changes how you experience a trip.
You relax more.
You trust yourself more.
And you enjoy the freedom of travelling without constantly second-guessing yourself.
If this guide helps you feel even a little more confident before your next adventure, then it’s done its job.