Travel advisory warnings, safety guides, visa updates and destination intelligence — by our team of travel safety correspondents.
The State Department has named its most dangerous destinations as the Iran war reshapes global travel risk. But the advisory list is more complex than the headl…
Easter 2026 arrives against the most turbulent travel advisory landscape in years. The destinations British travellers love most — Dubai, Cyprus, the Greek isla…
The FCDO updated its Portugal guidance on March 20. Two weeks later, the EU’s Entry/Exit System goes fully live. Between the biometric rollout, new overst…
As Passover approaches, Israel’s National Security Council has named Georgia and Azerbaijan in a wartime terror advisory for the first time. The warning i…
The CDC has issued a global dengue alert for 16 countries. But the alert is only the latest signal in a disease trajectory that has been accelerating for years.…
A spring break security alert, the killing of a cartel kingpin, a summer World Cup, and a tiered advisory system that most travellers fundamentally misread. Her…
On the same day Australia offered refuge to Iran’s women footballers, it introduced laws to block 7,200 other Iranians who already held valid visas from e…
A record-breaking outbound travel season has been gutted in weeks. Fares have doubled. Middle East bookings have collapsed. And a million Indian tourists are he…
Closed embassies. Cancelled flights. Expiring visas. For hundreds of thousands of Indian nationals and visa holders worldwide caught in the fallout of the US-Ir…
The UK has imposed an unprecedented “emergency brake” on study visas from four of the world’s most conflict-ridden countries. The data behind …
Cancelled grand prix events. 147 elite horses evacuated across two countries in 36 hours. Now, with the FEI issuing a standing travel advisory, show jumping in …
Level 4: Leave Now The advisory for Iraq is unambiguous: Level 4 — Do Not Travel. The State Department’s language is as direct as it ever becomes — “…
Ranking the Unrankable: What the Advisories Actually Tell You Ranking countries by danger is a conceptually imprecise exercise that advisory systems partially e…
The Geography of Risk in a Year That Changed Everything Travel warning lists have a way of appearing static. Countries like North Korea and Syria occupy their p…
Level 3, Ordered Departure, and an Active Regional War Saudi Arabia entered 2026 as one of the Gulf’s most ambitious tourism destinations, midway through …
A Destination Overtaken by Events On March 2, 2026, the US State Department ordered non-emergency government employees and their family members to leave Qatar d…
Advisory Status: Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution The US State Department maintains a Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution advisory for France, citing terro…
Advisory Status: Level 3 — Reconsider Travel (With Level 4 Sub-Zones) The US State Department has issued a Level 3 — Reconsider Travel advisory for Ethiopia, ci…
Advisory Status: Level 1 — Exercise Normal Precautions (With One Level 2 Exception) The US State Department issues a Level 1 — Exercise Normal Precautions advis…
Advisory Status: Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution The US State Department maintains a Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution advisory for Indonesia, citing te…
Current Status Across All Three Advisory Systems Vietnam enters March 2026 with one of the most consistently favorable travel advisory profiles in Southeast Asi…
Level 1, With One Serious Caveat Underground Japan enters March 2026 holding the US State Department’s Level 1 — Exercise Normal Precautions designation, …
The Short Answer: Yes — With Eyes Open Vietnam is generally safe for tourists, including first-time visitors, families, and solo travelers. The most likely prob…
Current Advisory Level: Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution The US State Department has issued a Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution advisory for Brazil, citi…
Current Advisory Level: Level 1 — Exercise Normal Precautions The US State Department has issued a Level 1 — Exercise Normal Precautions advisory for Argentina,…
Current Advisory Level: Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution The US State Department has issued a Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution advisory for Indonesia, c…
Current Advisory Level: Level 1 — Exercise Normal Precautions Japan remains one of the safest destinations for travelers worldwide in 2026, with the US State De…
Level 2 in Name. A Different Kind of Risk in Practice. Three jurisdictions, three advisory levels, one country. As of March 2026, the US State Department rates …
Current Advisory Level: Level 2 — Exercise Increased Caution The US State Department’s travel advisory for Peru sits at Level 2 — Exercise Increased Cauti…
Current Advisory Level: Level 3 — Reconsider Travel The US State Department has issued a Level 3: Reconsider Travel advisory for Colombia, recommending that US …
What Is the Current US State Department Advisory Level for Vietnam? The US State Department has issued a Level 1 Travel Advisory for Vietnam — the most favorabl…
A drone hit a British RAF base. The US issued a Level 3 advisory. Flights were cancelled. Then most of them resumed. Here is what the actual evidence says — and…
Rain in the desert sounds benign. Dubai’s April 2024 floods — the heaviest in 75 years — proved it is anything but. Now, a new week of storms has arrived,…
Belize sells turquoise water, jungle ruins, and the world’s second-largest barrier reef. The US State Department also lists it among the world’s hig…
While the world watches Iran, 50,000 unpaid TSA screeners are walking off the job. Welcome to the domestic travel crisis nobody saw coming — until the lines str…
Over 37,000 flights cancelled. Fares up 28%. India’s busiest routes detoured by hours. The Iran conflict didn’t just shut down the Middle East — it …
Female solo travel is growing faster than any other segment of global tourism. Women now account for the majority of solo trips taken worldwide. Yet the risks t…
The EU’s Entry-Exit System goes fully live on April 10, 2026 — replacing decades of passport stamps with fingerprints and facial scans across 29 countries…
Cyprus had nothing to do with the strikes on Iran. Its president said so publicly and repeatedly. Yet on March 3, 2026 — 72 hours after an Iranian-manufactured …
The EU’s Entry-Exit System goes fully live on April 10, 2026 — replacing decades of passport stamps with fingerprints and facial scans across 29 countries…
A powerful blizzard that overwhelmed snowplows, paralyzed interstate highways, and buried communities under up to 25 inches of snow forced Minnesota transportat…
A Storm That Earned Its Name — and Then Some March is supposed to be the month Wisconsin begins exhaling. Instead, on the weekend of March 14–16, 2026, the stat…
In less than three weeks, the Middle East transformed from the world’s most-transited aviation corridor into a war zone. Hundreds of thousands of American…
A convergence of disease resurgence, active conflict, and extreme weather events has triggered a cascade of travel advisories from multiple governments in early…
A natural disaster warning issued while you are overseas confronts you with a compressed timeline, incomplete information, and decisions that have direct conseq…
The question of where to find travel warnings specifically related to health risks is one that catches many travellers off guard, because health risk informatio…
The map of active disease outbreak warnings facing international travellers in March 2026 is one of the most complex in recent memory. The CDC’s Travel He…
Signing up for travel warning alerts before you book a trip is one of the most impactful and underused safety habits available to any international traveller. I…
One of the most important — and most misunderstood — aspects of travel insurance is the relationship between your policy and official government travel advisori…
If you are planning a holiday in 2026, the travel warning landscape looks markedly different from just a year ago. Escalating conflict in the Middle East, shift…