Travel Advisories and Safe Travel Information
Check your country's website before you go, and take a list of contact information for your embassies and consulates in the countries you're travelling to.
Be sure to also check out Global Exchange for different perspectives than those offered by the mass media and governments, and consider booking one of their reality tours to broaden your travel experience.
Your government's website will also offer you links to other safe travel information websites, like World Travel Watch. Although any travel guide you buy will contain some cautionary travel advice, these sites and Global Exchange also provide some history and context that will expand your cultural understanding of the political, economic and religious issues contributing to situations giving rise to the caution. Informing yourself of the issues at the beginning stages of your travel planning will not only help you travel safely, but responsibly as well.
Do a search or use the links below to go directly to your government office of foreign affairs travel advice page in a new window. Just close the window to return here to The Recipe for Travel for more travel planning tips and resources. If your country is not listed below yet, type "foreign affairs" +"your country name" into the search box below to find your government site.
Search for your country's foreign affairs and consular offices around the world.A Note for Travelers to Canada
On May 17, 2006 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, in collaboration with several other Government of Canada departments, launched the Be Aware and Declare! campaign. The campaign informs Canadian residents travelling abroad, Canadian residents returning home, and foreign travellers arriving in Canada of import restrictions that protect Canadians and the environment.
This interdepartmental campaign aims to increase the awareness of travellers for the need to "Be Aware and Declare!" food, animals, plants, and related products when entering Canada. This campaign helps to ensure the protection of Canadians and the environment against foreign pests, viruses, and animal diseases (e.g. avian influenza), which travellers may unintentionally bring into the country.
For more information, visit the Be Aware and Declare! website.
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The World Food Companion offers some tips I've practiced for sampling the world's food safely and with gusto, in addition to what you'll find in country profiles and travel advisories about food safety.
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