There’s always been massive overestimation of security risks in the region, and huge underestimation of medical risks.

in Africa – it’s atrocious. Not because it’s not there – some of these private hospitals have beautiful facilities – but there’s no ambulances to get people to hospital, so people die in the field.”

As an organisation, International SOS and Control Risks is not seeing any reduction in its operational platforms; in fact, if anything activity is increasing globally as the population and membership is still growing. It saw an 80 per cent year-on-year increase in its case volume globally in the first quarter (starting July).

Cyber and information security, two other key issues for business travellers, are often wrongly lumped together and Moro advises travellers to think about what they need to do to protect their own information security.“There are some destinations I travel to where I just take my phone and don’t take my laptop – think about reducing your exposure. People are more generally aware and do more preparation but they don’t specifically think about how their individual profile or itinerary will impact their travel.”