Thread: Brazilian aeroports, are they safe?

when I arrive in Brazil in the next summer I will have loads of luggages but I am worried to walk around alone in the airports, they have security there?

hey bellatrix=)

I traveled alone too. With lots of luggage, and nothing happend to me. But you HAVE to be careful, wherever you go, whatever you do weil you are alone. Dont let your things behind, accept help only from a official person and so on.

good luck

Yes, the airports in Brazil are safe, but as Niki said, please don´t relax about your luggages, and you only ask for information or help from official persons. have a nice trip!

Security and safety are still major issues and tourists visiting the country are encouraged to take necessary precautions as the incidence of crime against tourists is greater in areas surrounding beaches, hotels, discotheques, bars, nightclubs and other similar establishments that cater to visitors, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

In most airports, passengers walk through metal detectors, which use a low-frequency electromagnetic field to look for weapons. Anything that generates or uses electricity, such as power lines or household appliances, produces an electromagnetic field. At the low levels a metal detector emits, this exposure is considered safe for everyone, including pregnant women. (The same holds true for the wands that security personnel sometimes pass over individual passengers.)Many people mistakenly think these metal detectors use X-rays – they don't. Luggage X-ray machines do, though. They emit the same kind of radiation as in a dental X-ray and are used only on your bags and other inanimate objects going on the plane. You would have to place your hand through the curtain of a luggage screening machine while the X-ray was on to be exposed to a significant level of radiation.

Brazilian Gov. has been working to improve the security around the airports in Brazil, due to the big coming events as Football World Cup and Olympique Games.