Following the upgrade to Travel Security Online at the end of September, you can now sign up to receive emails by country. This means you can choose to receive all alerts or just Special Advisories and Evacuation Notifications on the specific countries that you want. Since all these country alerts are sent by email when they are published, you can receive the information you want as soon as we publish it without having to wait for the Daily Digest.
Explanation of the different alert types that we publish on countries and regions
Regular updates for country and regional analysis and forecasting
Regular updates on countries and regions are produced for security incidents, travel disruption, natural disasters or to provide trend analysis. These reports analyse succinctly security and travel disruption incidents that have occurred recently or a development that we expect to happen. They provide you with the relevant facts and analysis of the situation and advice for travellers to mitigate any security threat. Updates are prioritised depending on how critical the incident they cover is.
Special Advisories for critical security developments
When a major security incident or severe travel disruption event breaks, we issue a Special Advisory to enable you to assess and respond quickly. Special Advisories may be triggered by terrorist attacks, other forms of political violence and social unrest, major transport accidents or natural disasters. Whatever the nature of the incident, it is always an issue that we consider merits your immediate attention because of the potentially significant impact on personnel. Media headlines and breaking news are sometimes misinformed and we always seek to corroborate our information to ensure that what you receive from us is consistently reliable. We always follow up our initial alert with deeper analysis and more extensive advice formulated as the situation evolves.
Evacuation Notifications for when the security situation becomes critical
Evacuation Notifications are produced when an elevated security risk in a country is likely to be sustained or further deteriorate and warrant an evacuation. They are published on an escalating scale: Warning, Stand-by and Evacuate:
- Warning is a precautionary notification that indicates that the threat has increased significantly and that evacuation preparedness should be reviewed.
- Stand-by is a cautionary notification that is issued when a threat has become specifically directed and that personnel should be on standby to evacuate.
- Evacuate is an executive notification that we will begin evacuation operations.
When a situation requires Evacuation Notifications we send them daily until the threat level has reduced.
Signing up for emails by country
To sign up for these emails by country, go to the email alerts area and the Country Choice tab (you may need to register your email address before you can do this).
On the Country Choice tab, choose the countries you are interested in. By choosing ‘Add to my alerts' you will receive all alerts (regular updates, Special Advisories and Evacuation Notifications) that we publish on that country. If you do not want to receive every alert we publish on a country, you can choose to receive just Special Advisories and Evacuation Notifications only.
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On the map
- Regular updates are represented on the map with dark blue icons.
- Special Advisories and Evacuation Notifications are represented on the map with red icons.
We have made a number of changes to the site, altering the look and feel and adding new functionality:
- Update maps showing headlines and their location on a map are available at world, region and country level. Click on View by map link on the headlines page, a region page or a country page to view this map. The locations of updates are pinpointed on the maps so you can quickly see if your interests are affected. Special Advisories are highlighted in red to identify incidents which require an immediate response.
- The headline timeline below the map allows you to plot the location of archived alerts on the map. This longer term view of risk allows you to monitor patterns and trends in risk.
- Risk rating maps are available at world, region and country level. On a map page, click on the Show Risk Ratings dropdown menu in the dark grey bar at the top of the map to activate the risk rating layer.
- Special Issue Reports and Management Advisories have been amalgamated onto the Management Advisories page (accessible via the top menu with the white background) to reduce confusion.
- Daily Digest email delivery time choice enables you to choose when you receive the Daily Digest up to twice a day.
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We send email alerts from the following address: @travelsecurity.com. You may need to ask your IT department to permit (‘white list') the email domain @travelsecurity.com, which should ensure that you receive our email alerts and they are not blocked by your organisation's firewall. You may also need to check or ask your IT department to check your local spam filter settings as well.
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