Planning a holiday should be exciting, fun, and not a cybersecurity risk. But booking flights, hotels, and rental properties often means sharing sensitive personal and financial information across multiple platforms. Combined with frequent travel scams and recurring data breaches in the travel and hospitality sector, it creates plenty of opportunities for criminals.
This guide covers the most common risks when making travel reservations and explains how to avoid them. Save the adventure for your destination.
Travel bookings combine high-value payments with urgency and emotional decision-making. Attackers love that for several reasons:
Large upfront payments make scams profitable.
Booking confirmations often contain valuable personal data, such as names, travel dates, contact details, and sometimes passport information.
