7/30/2025–|Last update: 10:29 (Mecca time)
The summer is the season of moving away from the hustle and bustle of daily life, choosing the appropriate destination for travel and restoring the activity, but at the same time it is considered the period in which some people may expose themselves to digital risks inadvertently.
With electronic devices such as mobile phone with pictures, documents and notifications confirmation of reservations, the possibilities of data loss are increasing, and the consequences become greater in the event of sermons.
They are many and accelerating transformations witnessed by travel, travel and tourism trips, as the traveler seeks and seeks the integrity of his journey and eliminating unforgettable days, and avoiding harassment and problems that spoil those days.
Despite the development in the travel process, in terms of available options, whether mobility, places, or type of residence, this also brought some troubles, especially since many vital services have become provided through a set of applications and websites, as well as the strong appearance of artificial intelligence in the past few years.
Consequently, everything around us has become managed through phone devices or tablets, through which you can accomplish all your transactions, which begin to collect information to determine the tourist destination, and then start the reservation of flight tickets, accommodation places, as well as Learn about the most prominent tourist destinations, how to access them, and the means of transportation used within the country, and ensure the effectiveness of navigation programs and transportation applications from one place to another.
Added to this is electronic payment operations, knowledge of communications systems, and checking the flight insurance in terms of familiarity with electronic protection programs and technological solutions.
How do we avoid risks?
A report by the United Nations Tourism Organization – entitled “The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence in the Tourism Sector for the year 2024” – has highlighted the need for technological solutions, including artificial intelligence applications that are easy to deal with in order to bridge the digital gap, which helps travelers to have tools to secure their trips.
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The recent period has escalated the growing groups of tourists on the travel recommendations proposed by the artificial intelligence platforms, whether with regard to the best destinations depending on the choices and desires of tourists, as well as helping to choose the appropriate times for the trip, while simplifying Planning and reservations for trips.
Many names have also emerged among some countries with regard to safe tourism, and the proposal of applications that support this concept, such as what is going on in Turkey, which has an application that covers the full path of tourists from their countries to the host countries until their return, comfortably and safely with its preparation according to the general instructions and guidelines that are being published.
The matter did not stop at the arrangements for reservations and travel guidelines related to weather and places, but rather exceeded that there is a smart tourist guide known as “virtual tourism evidence supported by artificial intelligence” and can provide interactive maps, sound tours and augmented reality experiences, which enriches the experience of the tourist, and helps you discover new places, as it also provides detailed information about historical sites, cultural landmarks and hidden jewels in the tourist destination.
Possible risks
But this trend, associated with the growing role of travel and tourism, has generated risks from within the system. As it was said in the past, “Everything has a scourge of its gender, even the iron is the cooler on it”, which sheds light on the need to provide protection and insurance for these programs, and the urgent necessity for the safety of what the tourist uses from sites and applications, whether for purchases, sale or movement.
The winds may come in a way that does not desire ships, and the blessing of the journey turns into a journey of suffering, due to electronic threats, loss of electronic devices, fraud, electronic fraud, money loss, addresses and important phone numbers.
Avoid ticket fraud
In an awareness message, the UAE Cyber Security Council recently published some advice to avoid fraud in travel tickets, stressing the need to rely only on reservation assurances issued by the company or the official website that the traveler intends to reserve through.
In addition to verifying well the links of the website, caution against promotional offers that seem very attractive, and not buy tickets from unknown sources or through social media, as he advised not to pay money through immediate or unreliable transfers.
Family data safety
For the safety of your journey, you must put personal files and travel files in one destination, and simplify their management, through the solutions to storing data electronically, because families are mostly traveling with multiple devices and different users, and thus it remains to make files in one device better than each person depends on their cloud accounts or the storage capacity of his device.
It also provides storage systems connected to the Internet in the event that it is needed to have larger collective backup copies, which are reliable and expandable solutions that allow the storage, participation and management of digital content from one central site.
The high -capacity external solid tablets (with a capacity of approximately 6 terabytes) is a low -cost option for digital archiving.
Save data
The International Day for the Reserve Day for the year 2025 – conducted by “Western Digital” company – indicated that 28% of the participants worldwide reported that they had lost sensitive data as a result of a malfunction in the devices, a human error, or cyber accidents.
Nevertheless, almost half of the questionnaire (46%) performs backups for their data intermittently or they do not do so at all. This is attributed to reasons such as a lack of storage space (30%), time limit (29%), or the belief that backup is unnecessary (36%).
Important measures
Western Digital has provided important and reliable measures to maintain data security during travel during the summer, and includes backup before traveling, which is a very important first step, whether the journey is for work or entertainment purposes.
These backups ensure that personal content and basic documents such as travel reservations and health records guarantee, if the device is damaged, theft or loss.
It is also recommended to use hybrid backup copies, as the combination of cloud and material storage – on external hard disks or the network -related storage – is the most flexible approach, which guarantees access to data, whether in the event of an internet connection or not.
File organizing
Experts also recommend creating clear folders by date or category that helps reduce “digital chaos”, which makes access to photos, videos and documents easier. File and automation tools are essential factors in improving and strengthening digital safety.
It is also advised when traveling to avoid using unprotected networks when syncing data (Data Synchronization) or remote access to sensitive files, so instead it must be ensured that the solutions of encrypted dimension and protected with strong passwords or binary verification options.
