Good thread OP.
The most riskiest part of my journey, when arriving in a new country, is always the transportation between the airport and the accommodation. Esp as many cities have taxi-mafia.
Some of the precautions I take:
- multiple credit cards, located in different places on my person, in the bag etc.
- secret hidden pocket
- emergency cash hidden on my person
- emergency contacts (for credit cards, banks, etc) sent to myself in an email.
- all important Word/Excel files stored on the cloud and never on the laptop
- having two phones
Good luck.