EU Travel Help Essential and Emergency Help

The Travel Adviser provides useful information from travelers, tourist bureaus, travel, agents, and Consular officials. It is designed to make travel abroad easier, safer and more productive.
Among the useful information are telephone numbers and addresses for individual country and major city tourist bureaus. Most Tourist bureaus are staffed with cooperative, multi-lingual and knowledgeable personnel and are an exceptional resource for good restaurants, theaters, museums, train and airline schedules, hotels, hospitals, shopping and banking. For travelers needing a last minute place to stay, most Tourist Bureaus will help you find a suitable hotel and even make reservations ? free of charge.
	There is no shortage of information about developed countries. Indeed, there is more information than most travelers want to know, or are willing to read. So we have tried to provide answers to more pressing questions such as:
?	How do I get an English speaking operator with an international telecommunications carrier
?	How do I replace a lost passport or credit card?
?	Where do I get emergency medical services? How do I get back home quickly to my own doctor in the USA. How do I pay for the more expensive services and what will it cost?
?	How do I get legal help if the police detain me?
?	What are my legal rights in different foreign countries?
?	What do I need to know and how do I protect myself: 
o	For extra safety in my hotel room?
o	From being a victim of crime or credit card fraud?
o	From exposure to local diseases?
For the business traveler, we have included a brief synopsis of the European Union as a market. We?ve listed how some current policies may impact non-EU companies, and how some of the political/commercial organizations to which an individual EU country belongs may impact the way that country conducts its foreign commerce.