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- State Department Travel Advisories
- (Consular Affairs Topics)
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- The State Department issues travel advisories to inform traveling
- Americans of conditions abroad which may affect them adversely.
- Travel advisories are generally about physical dangers, unexpected
- arrests or detentions, serious health hazards, and other conditions
- abroad with serious consequences for traveling Americans.
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- Travel advisories which describe a potential for violence and physical
- danger usually reflect a trend or pattern of violence over a period
- of time in which the government of the country involved is unwilling
- or unable to afford normal protection. For that reason, isolated
- international terrorist of criminal attacks - which can and do occur
- virtually anywhere at any time - do not generally trigger travel advisories.
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- Travel advisories are issued on the basis of objective evidence
- about emerging or existing circumstances and are modified or cancelled
- when those circumstances change. Travel advisories are issued only
- after careful review of information from our diplomatic post in
- the affected country, and in coordination with various bureaus of
- the Department of State and other concerned federal agencies.
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- How To Access Travel Advisories
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- Travel advisories for specific countries are available at any of
- the 13 regional passport agencies, field offices or the U.S. Department
- of Commerce, and U.S. embassies and consulates abroad. They are
- also available by writing the Citizens Emergency Center, Bureau of
- Consular Affairs, Room 4811, N.S., U.S. Department of State, Washington,
- DC, 20520. Travel advisories may be heard anytime by dialing the
- Citizens Emergency Center at (202) 647-5225 from a touchtone phone.
- The recording is updated constantly.
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- By Computer Network
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- If you have a personal computer and a modem, you can also access
- travel advisories electronically. The Official Airlines Guide (OAG)
- provides the full text of travel advisories on many online computer
- services. To obtain information on accessing travel advisories
- through OAG on any of the following computer services, call the OAG
- Electronic Edition at 800-323-4000.
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- CompuServe*
- General Videotex-Delphi
- NewsNet
- Dialcom
- GEnie
- IP Sharp
- Dialog
- iNet-America
- Telenet
- Dow Jones News/Retrieval
- iNet-Bell of Canada
- Western
- Union-Easylink
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- *CompuServe subscribers may type GO STATE at any "!" prompt.
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- Infosys America Inc. also provides the full text of travel advisories
- through Travel Online BBS on the SmartNet International Computer
- Network in the U.S., Canada and overseas. The (modem) telephone
- number for Infosys America is (314) 625-4054.
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- Interactive Office Services, Inc. offers online travel information
- in Travel+Plus through the networks listed below. For information
- on access, call Travel+Plus at (617) 876-5551 or 800-544-4005.
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- Delphi, MCI (RCA Hotline) Bell South TUG
- GraphNet Unison
- FTCC Answer Bank
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- The Overseas Security Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB) provides State
- Department travel advisories as a free service (purchase of necessary
- software required) for American firms doing business overseas. Apply
- to the Executive Director, Overseas Security Advisory Council (DS/OSAC),
- Department of State, Washington, DC 20522-1003.
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- The Computer Information Delivery Service (CIDS) also provides
- the text of State Department travel advisories. For information,
- call Edward Decowski of Martin-Marietta at 703-802-5700.
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- How To Access State Department Travel Advisories by
- Computer Reservation System (CRS)
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- The following computer reservation systems (CRS) maintain State
- Department travel advisory information. The information can be accessed
- by entering the CRS codes listed below.
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- APOLLO - For the travel advisory index, enter: S*BRF/TVLADV
- For the full text of travel advisories and travel notices, enter:
- TD*DS/ADV
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- DATAS II - For full text of travel advisories, enter: G* _ (country)_
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- PARS - For the travel advisory index, enter: G/AAI/TVL
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- Travel Document Systems, Inc. provides the full text of travel advisories
- and notices to the following reservation systems:
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- SABRE - Enter: N*/ADVISORY INDEX
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- SYSTEM ONE - Enter: GG SUP TD ADV
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- In Western Europe, SYSTEM ONE is accessed through the AMADEUS system
- and APOLLO through the GALILEO system.
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