Fact Sheets & Video - Sydney

When travelling overseas, don't leave your money to chance. Make sure you're armed with a Cash Passport, the only prepaid travel money card that prepares you for the unexpected. Travelex Cash Passport is the smart NEW way to take your money overseas.

The Travelex Cash Passport is more than just a means to access cash internationally. It is the only product that comes with an entire suite of complimentary benefits, such as:

- A free second back-up card (able to be used simultaneously by your partner).

- Free replacement cards. - Free 24 hour, year-round emergency assistance from a multi-lingual team available to help with lost or stolen cards or passports, access to emergency funds, medical emergencies, legal assistance, interpreter services and sending messages home.

- With 700 stores in 35 countries and agents around the world, customers can have emergency cash in their hands in as little as 10 min!

utes.

- You can choose from a Travelex Cash Passport ATM card or DEBIT card.

- The Cash Passport is not linked to a bank account so personal banking account information remains secure.

- The Travelex Cash Passport is competitively priced with ATM withdrawal fee (from any one a million Visa-enabled ATM machines around the world) of $3.75 (much lower than most banks ATM cards) and a 1% commission each time you load money onto the card.

- Because travellers are spending their own money no credit rating is required. It's also ideal for "unbanked" customers i.e. those under 18 years of age.

- The card can be reloaded on the Internet from anywhere in the world via BPAY (ideal for parents back home wanting to "top up" their children's travel funds in the event of an emergency or a special need)

- Best of all, as you are spending the holiday money you have saved for the trip, you won't be tempted to !

dip into your life savings or whack it all on plastic only to come ho me to a credit card bill which runs for almost the same number of pages as a short novel.

- The card is available from all Travelex stores, Australia Post offices and most travel agents in Australia.

- In short, it is the safe, convenient and smart way to take your money overseas. It really has become the traveller's cheque of the future.

Log onto www.cashpassport.com.au for details

You don';t need to be a genius to be a smart traveller!

The Smartraveller campaign was launched in 2003. The campaign aims to provide Australians with information to ensure that their travel remains a safe and positive experience, by understanding and taking into account risks such as ill health, natural disasters, civil unrest, terrorist attack or even simple mishaps which can mar a holiday.

The website: www.smartraveller.gov.au is your one-stop shop for information on the following:

- Travel Advisories: Destinations that the Australian Gover!

nment advises against travelling to as well as those that they advise you to reconsider.

- Traveller's Bulletins: provide the latest news and guidance on general issues of interest to the Australian traveller.

- Travel Insurance: Advises of the importance of taking out travel insurance before going abroad with tips on what to look for in a policy.

- Travel Tips - FAQs for travelling abroad & ways to stay out of trouble!

- Travel Health - Get the right health information before you take off!

- Getting help overseas - Contact details overseas if you get in any strife

- Children's Issues - A broad range of advice regarding kids and travel

- Embassies & Consulates - Locations & contact details of Australian Embassies & Consulates abroad

- Visa information - make sure you're allowed into your chosen destination.

- Passport issuing information

Smartraveller also offers a Smartraveller Advisories and Bulletins service. Here you can create an account using your e-mail address and then subsc ribe to and unsubscribe from their travel advisories and travel bulletins and manage your subscription preferences.

',