Planning a trip overseas? A vacation, or possibly a backpacking trip? If you leave the airport single, I can almost guarantee that you will not return the same way.

You may not return with the love of your life, or even anyone at all, but the likelihood is that you will meet someone while vacationing abroad. It is a symptom known as "Dating TraveLeration", where the traveler becomes inexplicably sexually and emotionally liberated.

There is just something about being in a different country that allows people to exercise their hedonistic side. They get rid of their old hang-ups, leave the emotional baggage at home, and allow themselves to become sexually and emotionally honest possibly for the first time in their life.

Just check out a Girls Gone Wild video for proof. And it is not only the young people. 63% of single American's surveyed reported having a fling (however innocent) while travelling, at some point in their adult life.

Sociologists have linked this to the culture of travel, where people get the sense from resorts and advertising that "anything goes". This sinks into the brain and helps people get over their socially imposed limitations around sex and relationships. But hey, why not? If this is what humans need to allow for pleasure and relaxation, then I say go for it! Just be safe!

Given that this article is about dating advice for travelers, I should add in some of what I was supposed to be talking about.

If you want to screw round with the locals, by all means, but don't find yourself alone in an alley, or in a car, or somewhere elsewhere there is no method of escape. Although it is not common, there are the rare cases where locals take advantage of naive tourists. Do us all a favor, and do not become another statistic.

Use protection. I know, I know, this is so overdone, but the reality is travelers report using condoms far less than their non-travelling counterparts do. Don't come back pregnant, or having gotten someone pregnant, it will really ruin those precious vacation memories.

Try not to fall in love. Vacations and travel are romantic, but they are not reality. Everything on vacation is good and happy, but that person who you fall in love with while travelling is likely not the same person when they return home to reality. In the face of mounting bills, long work hours, and stressful traffic, they will likely show their normal side, the side you did not see on vacation.

These are the main points to remember, you can likely fill in the rest. Enjoy the sun, the sand, and the great cocktails by the beach. Enjoy your hedonism too, but just do not let it ruin the trip.

Safe travels!