March Travel Outlook: Improving Female Travel Safety
By Claudia Gualdi and Lorena Peña Last year Riskline analysed the benefits of solo travel as a source of empowerment for women, while also sharing tips for making female solo travel fun and safe. Female solo travel keeps recording a strong rise ever since the post-pandemic, but restrictions on women’s mobility continue to be concerning […]
How to Keep Travellers Informed Before and During Their Trip
Travelers frequently struggle to find essential details for trip preparation, resulting in frustration and potential unnecessary costs. This is where Riskline comes in. As a provider of travel risk intelligence, Riskline helps the travel industry by offering real-time, human-verified travel data. By partnering with TravelOperations, we assist their customers in staying informed before and during […]
February Travel Outlook: Understanding the Spain-Gibraltar Travel Dispute
by Claudia Gualdi Where does the issue arise? The relationship between Spain and Gibraltar has changed after Brexit. The British Overseas Territory (BOT) is no longer part of the border-free Schengen Area. The prolonged dispute between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) revolves around passport controls at the border with Spain. This […]
January Travel Outlook: Why Bleisure Travel Is Here to Stay
By Lorenzo Trevisan and Claudia Gualdi The new normal and the way people work and travel have resulted in new travel trends. Although the pandemic lockdowns meant lower volumes of departures for tourism and business alike, the reopening of international borders has led to interesting outcomes in the travel industry. One of them is that […]
Introducing Exciting Updates for Travel Search Widget
Are you ready to take your travel website to the next level? We are thrilled to announce some exciting updates to our Travel Search Widget that will enhance the user experience and make planning their trips even easier. The functionality remains the same, and these design improvements help provide a seamless booking process and keep […]
Navigating Tomorrow: A Summary of Riskline’s 2024 Forecast
As the new year approaches, it’s time to take a step back and consider what lies ahead in terms of travel, health and safety. Riskline’s 2024 Forecast provides an overview of industry predictions and the challenges companies need to be aware of to keep their travellers safe. Riskline’s team of analysts based in over 20 […]
A Guide to Travel Safety with Riskline’s Alerts API
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 […]
December Travel Outlook: What to Expect When Travelling This Month
by Lorena Peña No matter how early you book your flights, travel in December can be the most stressful and challenging experience. Tourists, business travellers and TMCs planning their trips in December must deal with a higher volume of passengers moving worldwide. Especially around the Christmas holidays, as it is one of the busiest times. […]
Travel Intelligence: Key to Mitigating Travel Risk
by Patricia Baruffi In our fast-moving, interconnected world, people and businesses are reaching out globally more than ever. While travel offers exciting possibilities, it also presents its fair share of challenges and uncertainties. To stay safe and make smart travel choices, access to information that’s up-to-date and trustworthy becomes crucial. That’s where data intelligence steps […]
Schengen Internal Border Controls – Updated April 2024
If you’re travelling within Europe, get ready for possible disruptions or delays to travel at affected borders due to the reintroduction of Schengen Internal Border Controls until at least the end of 2023. You should ensure all identification and travel documents are valid and compliant with the latest entry requirements. Why is this happening? The […]
November Travel Outlook: Pickpocketing in European Cities & How to Protect Your Belongings
by Farhan Rafi Around half of business travellers extend their trip for leisure purposes, and by visiting popular tourist sites in a foreign city, you would be at a greater risk of encountering pickpockets. Pickpockets, conventionally defined as thieves who steal things out of pockets or bags, are consistently reported in the United Kingdom, with […]
How to Choose the Right Travel Risk Intelligence Provider
by Thejas Valluru When you read ‘travel risk intelligence’ and ‘travel risk management’ for the first time, you might think they are interchangeable, but, in fact, they are not the same. One could guess that ‘travel risk intelligence’ would be a part of ‘travel risk management,’ because ‘management’ can be an umbrella term. That is […]
October Travel Outlook – Electronic Travel Authorizations 2024
by Claudia Gualdi Most travellers need or will soon need to obtain electronic travel authorizations before travel. What are these systems and how do they work? Here’s everything you need to know. Electronic Travel Authorizations (ETAs) are automated systems that verify the eligibility of visitors to enter a country without a visa. These also help […]
How Travel Search Widget Enhances Your Travellers’ Journey
If you were following the headlines, you noticed we recently wrote about all the features and benefits of the Travel Search Widget. Today, you will have the opportunity to read more about the solution itself and how various industries use it to enhance their customer experience. To begin with, what is the iFrame and Widget […]
Travel Outlook: How to Spot a Fake E-Visa Website
By Claudia Gualdi Visas scams are increasingly reported among travellers, as many countries are replacing paper visas and entry stamps with E-visas or Electronic Travel Authorization systems. The internet has simplified application processes through which travellers gain entry permissions via quick and easy steps. But this digitalization resulted in new opportunities for scammers to deceive […]
Travel Search Widget: Visa and Entry Requirements in Seconds
Travel planning data on your platform – visa and entry requirements, disruptions and traveller advice We recently released the newest product in the WorldInsights series – the Travel Search Widget. It helps travel providers give their customers fast and accurate information on visa, health and document requirements, upcoming events, or possible disruptions for any given […]
Travel Outlook: Free Wi-Fi at Airports – Risks and How to Protect Yourself
By Lorena Peña Travel intelligence can help you to anticipate and prevent a number of physical threats that can affect your business and leisure trips, but some risks come from cyberspace too. Digital security has become a vital issue for travellers, especially when at least half of the travelers connect to free Wi-Fi at airports. […]
Travel Outlook: Heatwaves and Travel in Summer 2023
By Claudia Gualdi; Contributors: Farhan Rafi, Baya Faure, and Lorena Peña Weather forecasts have correctly predicted 2023 as another exceptionally hot summer, with record-high global temperatures recorded every day for the first week of July alone. Heatwaves have become a widespread phenomenon worldwide increasing in frequency and duration, and their serious effects are visible on […]
Travel Outlook: Travelling Post-Brexit with a UK Passport
by Baya Faure Contributor: Claudia Gualdi Following the United Kingdom’s official exit from the European Union and the COVID-19 pandemic, travel in and out of the country continues to be challenged by new travel rules, particularly pertaining to passport validity. Ideally, once tickets are booked and visas approved, travellers are ready to depart. However, failure […]
El Niño Is Here: What Will the Impact Be?
The Pacific Ocean is moving out of the cold of La Niña and into the hot El Niño phase. This transition is bound to have a massive impact on global weather patterns, causing potential disruptions in travel and services.
Travel Outlook: AI and Travel Planning – Is ChatGPT the Next Frontier?
While travel planning can be laborious and stressful for some travellers, for others it is already part of the journey. Travel Intelligence Team Lead Claudia Gualdi belongs to the latter camp, so she took AI tool ChatGPT for a spin to see if it could help plan her next trip to one of her bucket list destinations – Japan. AI chatbots are the talk of the travel industry, but they still have a way to go before they replace human travel planning.
In the News: Riskline Launches New Travel Search API for Smart Pre-Trip Planning
Our new Travel Search API is the first in the WorldInsights series, and will allow users to access vital data to confidently book and plan a trip.
Travel Outlook: Unlocking Southeast Asia with the Return of Easy Travel
Entry requirements can be a major concern for travellers. During the COVID-19 peak, Southeast Asian countries had entry bans, causing stress for travellers. However, most countries in the region have now lifted entry bans, providing an optimistic outlook for travellers in 2023. Southeast Asian destinations are once again welcoming tourists to their beaches and tropical settings.
Travel Outlook: How Female Solo Travel Empowers Women
Travel is about freedom, fun and self-love. On this special day, we analyse how solo travel empowers women and contributes to shaping strong, independent and motivated individuals.
Travel Outlook: 5 Tips for Making Your Next Business Trip Sustainable
As global travel resumes after nearly three years of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple uncertainties continue to affect the travel industry, posing challenges for the future. In this “new normal”, travellers and businesses are paying greater attention to sustainability. Here we discuss the value of “nature-positive” travel and how it can be easily incorporated into your business trips.
Tit-for-Tat Visa Suspensions in East Asia
Just as travellers have come out of COVID-19-related travel bans, hopes for the return of increasingly unimpeded international travel have again been put into question in East Asia amid the recent tit-for-tat suspensions of visa issuance by South Korean and Chinese officials.
Travel Outlook: What to Expect When Travelling This January
While a variety of COVID-19 variants indicate prolonged infection level surges worldwide, global travel beginning in 2023 will continue to reach and even surpass pre-pandemic levels. A rebound in business travel and an increase in travel insurance popularity as entry restrictions are eased will further boost travel variety as the industry enters the new year.
Travel Outlook: What to Expect When Travelling This Holiday Season
Whether your destination is an exotic tropical island or a traditional Christmas market, travel chaos won’t reach last summer’s levels. However, if you plan to travel during this holiday season, expect disruptions in multiple destinations until the beginning of January.
Travel Outlook: What to Expect When Travelling This November
In this first blog of our new series, we explore the major trends that you should be aware of when travelling this month.
Qatar Will Host the World Cup, But Football Should Not Be the Main Concern
Actions by the Qatari government to improve its reputation and geopolitical standing along with credible accusations of human rights abuses mark the first time the World Cup will be held in the Middle East.
Riskline Partners with Sweden-Based Employee Safety Platform Safeture
The collaboration between Safeture and Riskline will provide travellers with in-depth up-to-date risk-related insights and guidance from around the world.
Travel Chaos in Europe
Optimism surrounding air travel in Europe following the relaxation of COVID-19 rules has dampened as staff shortages and industrial action have resulted in mass flight cancellations and other disruptions.
In the News: A Travel Guide for the Biggest Pride Festivals Worldwide
As the world celebrates the LGBT+ Pride Month through festivals, parades, awareness campaigns, talks and all kinds of social activities, we provide you with key information for some of the biggest Pride festivals across the globe, one each from the regions of Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa.
In the News: Riskline Partners with Tripkicks – A US-based Business Travel Add-On to Better Inform Corporate Travel
Riskline and Tripkicks announce partnership that will provide corporate travelers with risk related guidance.
Riskline 2022 Forecast
Natural disasters, extremism, elections and social unrest will join the continuing impact of COVID-19 across the world as the major threats and disruptions to travellers in 2022 according to our team of expert analysts who have identified 10 key risks for the coming year.
Riskline to Attend ITIC Global in Madrid
Riskline will be in attendance at ITIC Global Madrid from 31 October to 4 November.
MAPFRE Partners with Riskline for Smarter Travel Insurance Underwriting
Global insurance company MAPFRE Asistencia has partnered with travel risk intelligence company Riskline to incorporate location risk information into its travel insurance underwriting process.
2021 Q4 Forecast
As we approach the end of a tumultuous year, we highlight some of the key risks to look out for across the globe in Quarter 4.
Riskline to Attend the Business Travel Show 2021
Riskline is pleased to attend the Business Travel Show 2021 in London from 30 September to 1 October.
2021 Quarter 3 Forecast
As the halfway mark of a chaotic year approaches, we highlight some of the key risks to look out for across the globe in Quarter 3.
A Post-Pandemic LGBTQ+ Travel Guide
In the spirit of Pride Month, we highlight some of the most LGBTQ+ friendly and COVID-safe destinations as international leisure travel gradually resumes.
Webinar: The Future of Travel Bubbles in APAC and Beyond
With the launch of the Australia-New Zealand quarantine-free travel arrangement, we look at the nature of travel bubbles in the region, and what this means for business travellers.
2021 Q2 Forecast
The first three months of 2021 have been incredibly turbulent. As COVID-19 continues to plague the world, several other major incidents have occurred including the military coup in Myanmar and the storming of the US Capitol. In this forecast, we highlight some of the key events to look out for in Quarter 2.
International Women’s Day 2021
“We all need to play our part” – Riskline’s Suzanne Sangiovese discusses leadership in the risk management sector to celebrate International Women’s Day
A Short Guide to Post-Brexit Travel
The end of the Brexit transition period, together with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has ravaged the continent, brings a new level of complexity and uncertainty to travel between the UK and the EU.
Informer – 2021 Forecast
As a tumultuous year comes to an end, we look towards key global risks affecting travellers in 2021.
Next Year in Tokyo? Updates on the Fate of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The 2020 Summer Olympics have been postponed to July 2021 but there are now doubts as to whether the games can be held at all amid the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. While officials have so far opposed holding the Olympics behind closed doors, extensive testing, contact tracing and distancing efforts necessary to hold the event with spectators are likely to be a costly effort of its own.
LGBTQ+ Travel: How to Have Fun While Staying Safe
More countries are cautiously allowing travel to resume right in time for Pride Month. While there is much work to be done until LGBT communities feel welcome in every part of the world, LGBT travellers can still stay safe and have fun by taking additional precautions before and during travel.
Meeting the Risk Requirements of Diverse Business Travellers
Nearly half of all countries or territories in the world have no protections in place for members of the LGBT+ communities. When travelling on business, LGBT+ employees can face many risks, from legal issues and imprisonment to discrimination and falling victim to hate crimes
COVID-19 Travel Report: Navigating Travel in a Post-Pandemic World
It’s unlikely travel will return in the same form as we knew it before COVID-19. With this report, we highlight some of these changes that have already been implemented and those that are planned. We hope it’s useful as employers and employees consider venturing out on the road again. Follow this link to download your own […]