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About Travel Intel
Travel Intel puts the weather, the air, the safety advice, the events and the places for a destination in one brief, so you can see whether and when to go. It shows what it knows, says when something is typical or estimated, and leaves a gap rather than guess.
Where the information comes from
Everything on a brief comes from the public providers below. We combine it, we do not write it. How the score is made is on the method page.
| Used for | Source | How fresh, and its limits |
|---|---|---|
| Travel advisories (the safety card and the safety rule) | U.S. Department of State | Refreshed from the Department's public feed and dated on the card. Only Level 3 and 4 are modelled; a place without one is “no known advisory”, never “safe”. |
| Weather now and the forecast, air quality | WeatherAPI.com | Live, kept for about 15 minutes. The plan returns up to three forecast days. |
| Typical weather by month, best time to visit | NASA POWER | Long-term averages, not a forecast. Labelled “typical”. |
| Places, photos, local time, search | Google Maps Platform | Live, with ratings and opening hours as Google reports them. |
| Descriptions and photos of places | Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikivoyage | Photos carry their author and licence where they are shown. |
| Mapped positions and the map tiles | OpenStreetMap contributors | Open data under the ODbL licence. |
| Ticketed events | Ticketmaster | Live, where Ticketmaster lists events. Festivals and annual events are our own checked list. |
| Currency rates | ExchangeRate-API | Mid-market rates, updated daily and dated on the page. Not a bank’s quote. |
What it cannot tell you
- It is not a booking service and not official advice. Check your government’s advice and the entry rules before you go.
- A missing safety record is not a sign of safety. A place with no advisory shows “no known advisory”.
- Readings can be late or wrong at the source. The date beside a reading is its age.
Report a mistake
Something wrong, missing or out of date? Tell us the place and the item and we will check it against its source.
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