Your Travel Destination’s Crises Mapped Out

Before I decide to travel anywhere, I like to do as much research on my travel destination as time permits .

I recently came across an interactive map that allows me to quickly get an overview of whatever crisis may be unfolding in the country, I wish to visit.

AlertNet’s Hot-spot World View Map provides information about crises in the following colour-coded categories: Conflicts (blue), Food Security (purple), Health (green) and Sudden Disaster (red). When you select a category, the interactive world map colours any country that has a crisis in the category selected. As you hover over a particular country, links to more information about the crisis is displayed in a pop-up window. When you click on one of those links, news article links get displayed in the “Latest News” area to the right of the map.

Run by Reuters, the information displayed is as unbiased as it can get. I highly recommend the tool to any responsible traveller searching for the type of information that guide books and travel agents conveniently shy away from giving you.

Use it to help make up your mind, if it is safe or right to travel to a particular country. By visiting the country will you be supporting a regime you do not wish to support? Find out what you can do to help alleviate the crisis whilst there or from your own country.

While the interactive map is quick and easy to use, prepare to spent hours on AlertNet. The web site has all sorts of news, facts and figures, so you’re bound to learn something new about the country you wish to visit.

You can find the interactive Hot-spot World View Map here.

Note: The above image belongs to AlertNet.org. The above image and link are both published here with the permission of Reuters.

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