If you are planning to travel in the near future, consider carefully whether you have to take your expensive jewellery. The chances of theft, and of losing or damaging your jewellery goes up the minute you begin your travelling. This is due to the fact that you are in new and unfamiliar surroundings, and you are doing new things, frequently in tourist areas which are the domain of pickpockets, con artists and other thieves.
If you are planning on travelling outside of your own country, make sure that your jewellery insurance covers you when you are travelling out of your own country. Since the likelihood of theft is greater in foreign countries, many insurance companies will only provide coverage in your country.
To avoid attracting the attention of criminals, try to dress so as to blend into the local environment, particularly when travelling in another country. Although if you are away getting married in Hawaii, the fact that you are in a wedding dress on the beach with a hawaii wedding photographer next to you might make blending in a bit difficult!
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If you are travelling internationally, seriously consider leaving your jewellery behind. Criminals often believe that all tourists are rich, so if you decide to wear jewellery, you could turn rings around so that the stones aren't showing and don't wear dangling earrings, as it is easy to snatch dangling earrings. Large, expensive-looking jewellery is obviously an attractive target for thieves and should be hidden from view.
It is unwise to put your jewellery in checked-in luggage, as airport personnel could go through your personal belongings. The number of bags which are lost by airlines is not small and when it comes to your lost luggage, their liability is very limited. Take your jewellery and any other valuables such as wallets, tickets, money, keys, cameras and medicines in your hand luggage. If airport security asks to go through your hand luggage, ask for a private room or area so that other travellers can't see your valuables.
Be very careful with your valuables when staying in a hotel room. These are open to cleaners who will have access to room keys and safes in hotel rooms are sometimes not very secure. It's possible that criminals know what the cleaning routines are, and could easily enter your room when the cleaners leave room doors open and are not in the room.
If you don't leave your jewellery in your suitcase or inside your hotel room, that means you have to carry the jewellery with you which can be a problem at the security checks in the airports or when you are sightseeing. Many belongings are stolen after being left for just a short period of time in a bag at a restaurant, restroom, or waiting room. Thieves will often wait for travellers to leave their bag for just a minute then steal their bag without anyone noticing.
Theft is not the only risk to your jewellery when travelling. Frequently a holiday includes time at the pool, beach, or hot tub. The sand on the beach and pool concrete can scratch precious metals in jewellery as well as gemstones such as emeralds. Chlorine in pools can also have a bad effect on gemstones and precious metals.
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