Travel Advice
| General | Air tickets | Embassies | Health and Security | Hotels/Apartments | Relocations | Routes | Time zones |
General information
- UNDP - Travel Services Section (intranet)
- UNDP - Official Travel Guide (intranet)
- UNDP Frequently Asked Questions on Travel
- Expatworld.net - Links to various resources websites for expatriates
- Relocation Guide to New York City
- Check my trip
- Airlinequality.org - Airline, airport, seat and lounge reviews
- Seatguru.com - Airline Seating Charts and Best Airplane Seats
Air tickets
Links to plane tickets online purchasing sites:
- Anyway.com
- Cheapflights.com
- E-bookers.com
- Expedia.com
- Flitesite.co.uk
- Flylc.com
- Lastminute.com
- Momondo.com
- Opodo.com
- Priceline.com
- TraveloCity.com
- TravelonWeb.com
- Tickets.com
- Which Budget
- Zuji.com (for travel in South East Asia)
Embassies
- Escapeartist.com website groups the addresses and phones numbers of the embassies worldwide.
Health and security related information for travellers
Newly-appointed SARCs or SARCs that are about to travel for a mission/holidays may wish to get vaccinations and travel medical and security advice at the following links:
Health
- Cimed - health information for travelers and expatriates (in French)
- Travelers' health section of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
- Pasteur Institute - vaccinations and travel advice (in French)
- Preventing Malaria - Information about Malaria, risk zones and preventative drugs
- Shoreland's Travel Health Online - health and travel advice
- Travel Medicine - information and products for safe travel
- WHO's international travel and health checklist
Security
- Office of the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) - travel advisory
- UN Headquarters - Staff Emergency Information
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs - travel advice (site in French)
- US State Department, Bureau of Consular Affairs
Hotels/Apartments
Relocations
SARCs that are planning to move to another country can be interested in the following links. Please don't hesitate to give us feedback on your experience regarding relocation.
- Bagagesdumonde.com
- Transeuro.com - various useful links
- Excess-baggage.com - very convenient
- AGS Worldwide Movers (France) - international moving and storage specialist
- Corstjens Group (Netherlands) - worldwide activity, local expertise
- DuPont Moving Solutions - relocation in the USA
- Forwarders - directory of freight forwarding services
- KHZ International Movers - specialist in international removals
- Maersk Logistics (Denmark) - more than 200 offices worldwide
- Map Relocations - Based in the Benelux
- Panalpina (Switzerland) - supply chain management
- Sterling International Movers (UK) - one of the top 5 international movers in Europe
- Stevens Worldwide Van Lines (USA) - specialists in relocation and international forwarding
- Voerman International (Netherlands) - international moving and storage specialist
- 21st Century Relocations - worldwide
Routes
Time zones
- TimeandDate.com website offers various useful lists of current local times around the world.