Thursday 26 June 2014

WEEKLY ROUND-UP #26 (19 JUNE-26 JUNE)

We will go back to some of our tweets of interest of the past week and expand further on the indicators that we presented as they affect the security situation of a country. When we produce vulnerability assessments for our clients, six threat factors are analyzed and assessed while four hazards are also analyzed and assessed. If gaps are identified they are covered by atmospherics elements. The goal of our tweets is to highlight and provide examples of the research that we do.

From 20 June:
Ecuador murder rate down 15% in 2014. We judge that murders targeting tourists are atypical.

Our comment: Our competition will highly likely only report the first sentence, as any news outlet would do. The catch is that the second sentence -which can loosely be labelled as "analysis"- is a  paid for service for our competition, as one travel risk mitigation company previously told us. No kidding.
From 21 June:
Assessment: Kenya's tourism & dire security situation directly linked to its fight vs Al-Shabaab in Somalia. We also judge that even if Kenyan forces withdraw, the extremists will continue attacks. Prospects of safer tourism highly unlikely. See us for details.
Our comment: This is a real intelligence assessment that is properly referred to in our industry as "open source intelligence". We challenge any reader to disprove this accurately analyzed and long term outlook. As a matter of fact this constitutes basic intelligence analysis based on past trends and patterns. That simple.

From 25 June: 
Brazil update: Rio de Janeiro: street crimes up by 50% in first 90 days of 2014. Affluence triggered opportunities. Contact us on how to stay safer.
Our comment: We always provide a "so what?" to our tweets. Why report a news event or a statistic without offering to make sense of its potential importance? Well established security firms fail to expand on their tweets as it is easier to report a past event. Less so to provide expert insight...

Our outlook: For us at PAR-SEC Consulting offering analysis, insight and other small snippets into what matters on a courtesy basis makes sense. Travelers as well as our twitter followers benefit and we gain credibility and a well deserved exposure that differentiates us from our competitors, making us innovative. We will continue to establish corroboration of our dependability and while we will convince that we are better suited to keep our clients safer while abroad without gimmicky electronic gadgets or with reactive travel alerts which are both indicative of lack of insight and denuded of analytical reach, we offer accurate intel that will ensure that our clients are ideally equipped to achieve their travel goals while in riskier countries, for business or leisure. After all we, contrary to a world renowned " geopolitical intelligence and advisory firm" accurately assessed the security outcome to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. For free and for all via twitter. 


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