Oswaldo Royett

The world can be a dangerous place, especially for careless travelers. The U.S. State Department does its best to  alert tourists of the risks , but those warnings don’t always paint a clear picture. Turns out, the countries issued the most travel warnings aren’t always the most dangerous. Is traveling to countries that have been issued alerts and warnings, like Mexico, Mali, Israel, and Pakistan, deadly for American tourists? Sort of. Data gathered by Data.World and Priceonomics shows there is definitely a significant relationship between the number of American tourists killed in a country and the number of travel warnings issued. But there’s some confusion about which places are actually the most dangerous. Mexico, for example, has been issued the most travel warnings between 2009 and 2016, with a total of 28. Mali is in second place with 26, then Israel with 25, Pakistan with 25, and Iraq with 24. If you compare that to the number of American tourist deat...

Travel is expensive. Between flights, hotels, meals, transportation, and the barrage of tourist traps, it is hard to keep to a strict budget when traveling in a different country.  However, it's even harder if you don't do your due diligence.  In the recently published 2015 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness report, the World Economic Forum ranks 141 countries based on how cheap/expensive it is to travel there. This takes into account things like average cost of a flights to and from, average cost of hotel accommodations, cost of living, fuel prices, and purchasing power parity (PPP)*. Knowing the costs of visiting an area can make all the difference between traveling sensibly and hitchhiking back to the airport. Note: Hotel and gas conversions are based on the US dollar and information from the World Bank and are subject to change. PPP is relative to the country's home currency. *An example of PPP: If the PPP in the United States is 1...

Paris   ( UK:   / ˈ p ær ɪ s / ;  US: / ˈ p ɛər ɪ s / ;  French:   [paʁi]   ) is the capital and most populous city of  France . Situated on the  Seine  River, in the north of the country, it is at the heart of the  Île-de-France   region , also known as the  région parisienne  (Paris Region in English).  The city of Paris has a population of 2,249,975 inhabitants (January 2011),  while its  metropolitan area  is  one of the largest population centres in Europe , with 12,292,895 inhabitants at the January 2011 census.  About 2.7 million of this total were born outside  Metropolitan France  and represent a multitude of different countries and territories from around the world.

Mont Blanc  ( French pronunciation: ​ [mɔ̃.blɑ̃] ) or  Monte Bianco  ( Italian pronunciation:  [ˈmonte ˈbjaŋko] ), both meaning "White Mountain", is the highest  mountain  in the  Alps  and the  European Union .  It rises 4,810 m (15,781 ft) above sea level and is ranked  11th in the world  in  topographic prominence . It is also sometimes known as  La Dame blanche  (French for "the White Lady") or  Il Bianco  (Italian for "the White One").

(/bərˈlɪn/; German pronunciation: [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn]) is the Capital of Germany and one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany on the River Spree, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 4.5 million residents from over 180 nations. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.  —  me siento entusiasmado.