What is Travel Safety?
Travel safety is the ability of a person to conduct their travel plans with utmost care and anticipation for unexpected events. One can say it is about being ‘street smart’, as travel safety involves being actively aware of your surroundings, tracking travel disruptions, having valid travel insurance, avoiding getting tangled in criminal activities, etc.
In the current globalised world, the norm has become for employees to travel to conduct business activities, making it harder for companies to keep track of their employee’s travel safety. One way to reduce the usage of resources to keep track of events endlessly is to incorporate technology into the process. Riskline’s Alerts API is a good contender for your travel department.
Why Do Realtime Alerts Matter?
Realtime alerts are notifications about an event occurring at a specified destination. Realtime alerts are useful for travellers on-site, as news about events can take some time for traditional news outlets to report on. With the use of Alerts API, travellers can get notified much more quickly, allowing them ample time to react. Additionally, Riskline’s analysts vet alerts to make sure they are credible and provide advice if applicable.
Riskline aims to send first alerts within 10 minutes of getting news about a ‘breaking’ incident. At Riskline, ‘breaking’ events are categorised as presenting an immediate threat to traveller safety. For ‘high’ priority events, alerts are sent to users within 20 minutes of being notified.
Categories Tracked by Riskline
Riskline keeps track of various categories of events that can disrupt travel plans, operations, personnel safety or client assets. Here are some categories: demonstrations and unrest, natural and environmental, travel safety and disruptions, conflict and terrorism, crime and corruption, political developments, and health and medical.
It is important to track all of these categories because travel disruptions are not just about being able to make it onto an airplane, but can be as small as demonstrations affecting commutes across your destination. Think of your last trip. Was there a point where you wished you had known about a travel disruption because you needed to come up with a plan B?
Riskline’s Alert API Features
Alerts API is essentially short reports that share the impact of security and travel-related incidents worldwide. An Alert consists of essential intelligence, practical advice and geographic data. They inform travellers about the most important details of an incident. Alerts are very useful when there is a local language barrier, as you can receive alerts in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese.
Here are a few key features of Alert API:
- Impact segmentation – Know if travellers or everyone is affected by an incident.
- Routes and Carriers – Know which carriers and travel routes are affected.
- Multiple Locations – Specify single or multiple locations in a single alert.
- Impact Radius – Shows the areas affected by an event.
- Subcategory Groups – Get deeper clarity on what type of event has occurred.
Travel Safety should be part of every traveller’s plan, in order to have a successful trip. Alerts API is a solution that can help TMCs save human resources and time.
With the help of Alert API, travellers can get notified about essential intelligence and advice about the most important details of an incident occurring in their travel destination.
