Sources

Official advisories and attribution.

GoAware compares normalized advisory levels from the seven sources below. Only usable records from the current collection enter a country’s score.

United Kingdom — FCDO

Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright. Source: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. The country-specific original URL and update date appear in every destination view.

No official status, endorsement or government partnership is implied.

Canada — Government of Canada

Attribution: Adapted from “Travel Advice and Advisories for [destination]”, Government of Canada. Every destination view identifies the complete destination-specific title and links to the exact original URL.

Use is limited to this non-commercial service. Accuracy is checked against the identified original. The Canada.ca terms and conditions require due diligence, the title, author where available, and original URL. Government symbols and wordmarks are not used.

New Zealand — SafeTravel / MFAT

Attribution: Adapted from SafeTravel, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Crown Copyright ©. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence for non-commercial reuse, subject to SafeTravel’s copyright conditions.

No SafeTravel or New Zealand Government logos, photography, imagery or website-design elements are reproduced.

Austria — BMEIA

The Austrian Foreign Ministry publishes an official four-level safety scale from 1 (good security standard) to 4 (travel warning), including regional levels. GoAware imports the numeric BMEIA level and update date into the same normalized 1–4 scoring model and links back to the official country page. Full BMEIA advisory prose, imagery and official marks are not copied.

Germany — Federal Foreign Office

Only independently worded factual warning status is shown. The Federal Foreign Office asks sites to integrate country information by linking rather than physically copying its texts, so GoAware links to the official source and does not reproduce the advisory prose.

United States — Department of State

Scoring: The U.S. Department of State publishes an official four-level Travel Advisory scale (1 = Exercise Normal Precautions; 4 = Do Not Travel). GoAware loads the current headline level from the Department’s public Travel Advisories API and links to the official advisory.

The score uses the nationwide headline level. Regional exceptions must be checked in the linked official advisory.

Australia — Smartraveller / DFAT

Only the short factual overall advice level and an independently presented classification are shown, with a link to the official Smartraveller source. GoAware does not reproduce complete advisory prose, government logos, photographs or other protected design elements.

Government names are used only to identify sources. GoAware is independent and is not affiliated with, approved by or endorsed by any government. Source and licence status last reviewed: 22 September 2026.

Austria: explicit destination security levels (1–4); missing levels are excluded. Germany has no official numerical scale: full travel warnings map to 4 and partial warnings to 3 for this comparison. Absence of a warning is not scored. Regional details remain in the official advice.