The 59-year-old tourist lost his trip to Dubai and his body was found on the sand dunes! How to prevent getting lost when traveling abroad?

The 59-year-old tourist lost his trip to Dubai and his body was found on the sand dunes! How to prevent getting lost when traveling abroad?

In the past two days, many people's circle of friends have been circulating a message of missing people: urgently looking for relatives of colleagues: Tu Moumou, a Hangzhou native, male, 59 years old, traveled to the United Arab Emirates with a group on 15, and the travel company: China Tourism Group Shanghai Co., Ltd., lost in the largest shopping mall in Dubai on the morning of 16 local time. Originally planned to return to the hotel that night, it has disappeared. At present, we have called the police and contacted the Consulate of China in Dubai. If you have any information, clues or methods, please contact your family. thank you

At noon yesterday, the reporter learned from one of the family members that the family members had learned from the Consulate General of China in Dubai and Ctrip. The night before, Mr. Tu, a Hangzhou tourist who disappeared in Dubai, was killed. The specific reason is not clear. The first family members have flown to Dubai.

At 5 pm yesterday, the first family members arrived at Dubai International Airport. The reporter immediately contacted Mr. Shao, the son-in-law of the victim Mr. Tu.

Mr. Shao introduced the whole story in detail:

My father-in-law is 59 years old and has one year to retire.

My father-in-law likes traveling very much and uses his annual leave to go abroad every year. He has been to dozens of countries. Because my mother-in-law and wife are both medical workers, there are almost no holidays, so my father-in-law travels alone. But he can't speak English and always goes abroad with a group.

This time, my father-in-law reported a 9-day tour through Ctrip. The itinerary includes Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Casablanca, Morocco and Marrakech. This is a relatively small route.

/kloc-in June, 2005, my father-in-law's tour group departed from Shanghai and arrived in Dubai in the early morning of June 16 local time.

At seven or eight o'clock that morning, he and other group members were sent to a large local shopping mall. The tour guide told them to move freely after dissolution and then return to the hotel by themselves. After that, my grandfather disappeared.

I find it incredible. How can the itinerary be arranged like this? Many middle-aged and elderly people who join tour groups don't know English as well as my father-in-law. Let them go back to the hotel more than ten kilometers away. What should they do if they encounter problems on the way? This is very unreasonable.

The group member who shared a room with his father-in-law that day found that his father-in-law did not come back and did not report to the tour guide. It was not until the next day when the tour group counted the number of people that we found that my father-in-law had not returned all night that we informed our family.

June 16, we have been calling my father-in-law's mobile phone. Yes, but no one answered. We immediately edited the news of my father-in-law's loss into words and forwarded it in the circle of friends. Local friends in Dubai also helped us turn the tables. The news that my father-in-law was lost soon spread in the local Chinese circle in Dubai.

17 at 3pm, we received a phone call from a friend from China in Dubai, saying that he had heard from the local police station that my father-in-law had an accident and disappeared.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, we received a phone call from Ctrip, saying that we had checked with the Dubai Consulate, and my father-in-law was killed.

At 7 o'clock that evening, we contacted the Consulate General of China in Dubai.

A consul said that the consular staff immediately rushed to the local police station after receiving the news. The local police refused to see the body, but they saw the father-in-law's passport and belongings. According to the police, my father-in-law was found lying on a sand dune with no vital signs. A preliminary investigation by the police found that the father-in-law had no obvious trauma and his property was not lost. Combined with the very good local security situation in Dubai, the possibility of homicide is basically ruled out, but the specific cause of death needs to be investigated.

There are several doctors in our family. Hearing this news, I judged that my father-in-law probably died of heatstroke.

Why do you say that? Because the local temperature in Dubai is as high as 40 degrees Celsius, many places are deserts except the central area. My father-in-law probably got lost on his way back to the hotel, and the high temperature caused him to faint from heatstroke. My father-in-law is in good health and has regular physical examination every year, but long-term high temperature may also lead to such a situation in a healthy person.

The Consulate General of China in Dubai confirmed this.

Yesterday afternoon, the reporter called the Consulate General of China in Dubai.

Xu Hai, director of the Consular Section of the Consulate General of China in Dubai, confirmed the death of Hangzhou tourists in Dubai.

Xu Haifeng said that the Consulate General of Dubai actively assisted the families to find and contact the local police after learning that China citizens were missing in Dubai. The Consulate General of Dubai immediately sent someone to the local police station after learning the news of Mr. Tu's unfortunate death from the police and got in touch with Mr. Tu's family.

Xu Haifeng said that Mr Tu's death would have to wait for the autopsy report of the police. The release date of the autopsy report is still unknown.

The latest highest temperature in Dubai is 40℃

It may be nearly 50℃ outdoors.

A staff member in charge of the Middle East Line of Zhejiang International Travel Service said: "It's hot in Dubai now. It belongs to a tropical desert climate, with the highest temperature of 40℃ recently and possibly nearly 50℃ outdoors. Moreover, the local temperature difference between morning and evening is large, and the air conditioning in public places in Dubai is very full. Therefore, we should pay attention to keeping warm indoors and paying attention to heatstroke outdoors. "

Heatstroke (heatstroke) refers to the imbalance of body temperature regulation caused by high temperature, which leads to excessive heat accumulation in the body, thus causing damage to nerve organs. In the classification of heatstroke, heatstroke is a severe heatstroke and a fatal disease with a high mortality rate.

The staff of the Provincial International Travel Service also introduced that the biggest shopping mall in Dubai where Mr. Tu finally appeared may be mall of the emirates (UAE Shopping Center), and many people in China will go there. This is the largest shopping center in the world, with a full range of luxury goods, and each floor has Chinese shopping guides and Chinese instructions.

What should I do if I get lost when traveling abroad?

Many netizens believe that getting lost alone in the desert may be the main reason for Mr. Tu's unfortunate death. Nowadays, more and more China people travel abroad. What if they get separated from the team abroad or get lost in their free travel?

The reporter interviewed Miss Jin, a senior expert who has worked in the tourism industry for many years. She gave three suggestions:

First, international roaming of mobile phones must be opened. In order to save some telephone bills, many elderly people are reluctant to drive, or it is worthwhile to rent Wi-Fi instead of roaming on mobile phones. Because your mobile phone number is an invisible safe channel, you can get in touch with your family, friends and team leader at any time.

"This phone bill is not good, it is too important. I have been traveling for so long, and the guests who come to register here are allowed to open international roaming on their mobile phones. " Miss Jin said that she and the tourists suggested this. And now more and more people go out alone, especially many people who have just retired. Special attention should be paid to similar security issues. Not long ago, an old man went to Israel and Jordan. He only rented Wi-Fi and didn't send a circle of friends for two days. His family was in a hurry and couldn't get in touch by phone. So at this time, it is even more important to open roaming.

Second, it is best to bring the following three things when traveling: bring an extra copy of your passport; Travel agency's notice of withdrawal and travel itinerary; Business card with hotel name and address. Read the travel instructions, precautions and emergency contact numbers at home and abroad carefully before departure, and take the emergency contact numbers with you. At each stop, write down the hotel address, telephone number, tour leader, guide room number, tourist license plate number, driver contact number, etc. If the address is not at hand, and you can't remember the phone number of the hotel and the tour leader, call home to let relatives and friends get in touch with the domestic travel agency, so as to know the contact information of the tour leader and the next destination of the team as soon as possible.

Third, if you really get lost, don't worry, stay in the same place or the place agreed by the tour guide; Or go to the police station, local embassy or local tourism department for help. At the same time, we should also pay attention to the fact that it is best not to trust strangers easily, especially those who are too enthusiastic. Because many tourists from China have the habit of carrying a lot of cash or valuables with them, there are often some "black tour guides" abroad, who specialize in waiting for or deceiving China tourists.