I can't stand when I'm asked this question....

[Bnewb]

SG...that would just be common sense....don't give out your personal information anywhere unless necessary.

This whole advice about people not knowing your comings & goings I find to be quite weak & needlessly creating a paranoid atmosphere.
The flip side of this, is that it's often better that you let people know where you're going so that if something is out of the ordinary, they know where you should have been & when you're likely to return. Security guards will often ask just for this reason...nothing wrong with letting the front desk know either.

The number of times people are asked where they're staying during busy season I'm sure is in the thousands per day...and still everyone knows Negril has a very low incident of tourist crimes.

I agree with RockRobster...if someone really wants to know something, anywhere, it's not impossible to find out.

Again...common sense rules!