UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. You have rejected additional cookies. FCDO travel advice aims to inform British nationals so they can make decisions about travelling abroad. This page sets out how the FCDO assesses risks and compiles travel advice.
British people make around 50 million trips abroad during an average year. Almost all of these trips are trouble-free.
But every year the FCDO helps tens of thousands of British nationals who have got into difficulty abroad. In many cases, these difficulties could have been avoided. Read it alongside a good guide book and other resources like social media, online message forums and blogs. Our travel advice aims to provide objective information and advice.
Its purpose is to help you make better-informed decisions about international travel and plan for a trouble-free trip. Check our country travel advice pages before you plan travel abroad. Sign up for email alerts to be notified of any updates to our advice before or during your trip.
The FCDO cannot enforce travel advice. No foreign travel can be guaranteed as safe. You must take personal responsibility for your own travel. Any decision to travel to, stay in or leave a country, or to undertake any type of activity in that country, is for you to take on the basis of the best available information from our travel advice and other sources. The government cannot make these decisions for you.
