Travel insurance is essential for all travel and should ideally be purchased when booking your trip. One thing that many travellers refer to when thinking of planning a trip is their local travel advisories.A travel advisory is an official statement issued by a government agency to provide information about the relative safety of travelling to or visiting one or more specific foreign countries or destinations. The purpose is to enable travelers to make an informed decision about a particular travel destination, and to help travelers prepare adequately for what may be encountered on their trip. In the United States, travel warnings are issued by the Department of State and are often called warden messages. Travel advisories are released for a variety of reasons, including terrorism, natural disasters, political unrest, wars, health emergencies and outbreaks of crime. Each country in the world is given a Travel Advisory Level Status as listed below:
