Press resources
Background, downloadable assets, ready-to-cite statistics, and direct contact for journalists writing about travel safety, government travel advisories, tourist scams, or the Warnely platform itself.
About Warnely
Warnely is a travel-safety platform covering 180 countries. The product centres on three surfaces:
- An iOS app with real-time push alerts for saved countries.
- A web dashboard at warnely.com with the same alert wire, country guides, and authority-signal tracking.
- A research surface: composite risk scores per country, methodology, change-history feeds, and an open dataset.
The composite risk score blends four independent inputs: an editorial assessment (50%), worst-of UK FCDO and US State Department advisories (30%), the Global Peace Index plus the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (15%), and a live signal from the Warnely incident wire (5%). Full methodology, including the renormalisation rules when components are missing, is at warnely.com/guides/methodology.
Quick stats
Use any of these without attribution beyond "Warnely". Each is sourced directly from the dataset or platform; the link points to the live figure.
Ready-to-cite lines
Quote either of these in their entirety and attribute to Warnely. If you need a custom quote or want a longer interview, email and we will respond within four working hours.
"Most travellers carry a much louder source of safety anxiety than they realise: news cycles. The job of a real risk score is to separate the signal that should change a booking decision from the noise that shouldn't. That is the whole reason Warnely's composite blends a slow editorial layer with live government advisories and a small live-incident signal, instead of running on news volume alone."Warnely editorial position on travel-safety reporting
"The single most useful safety question a traveller can ask before a trip is not 'is this country safe' but 'where in this country, and when'. Country-level scores work for triaging destinations. Anything more granular needs the breakdown."Warnely editorial position on country-level scoring
Topics we can speak to
If your story touches any of the below, we have data, screenshots, and an on-the-record source available. Email with your angle and deadline.
- Government travel-advisory changes (UK FCDO and US State Department), including same-day movers.
- Country-level travel safety trends, year over year.
- Tourist scam patterns, by region and by city.
- Drug-law severity by country, including death-penalty jurisdictions.
- Solo-female and LGBTQ+ travel safety, including how legal status and lived experience diverge.
- The mechanics of safety scoring: composite formulas, structural indices, the role of live incident data.
- Alert fatigue and the design of useful real-time alerts.
- Differences between FCDO and US State Department methodology and what they mean for travellers from each country.
Press kit downloads
All assets are released for editorial use with attribution to Warnely. No need to ask first.
Logo (512×512 PNG)
The Warnely app icon. Use as a square brand mark.
PNG · 512×512 · ~25 KB
Open Graph card
1200×630 marketing card. Useful as an editor-side header.
PNG · 1200×630
iOS globe screenshot
The live incident globe from the iOS app.
PNG
iOS guides screenshot
The country-guide surface from the iOS app.
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iOS wire screenshot
The incident-wire feed from the iOS app.
PNG180-country risk dataset
The composite risk dataset published under CC BY 4.0.
CSV · 22 KBWhere to find us as a source
If you use journalist-source matching platforms, Warnely is on each of the following. Filter by the categories listed and we will pick up matched requests.
| Platform | Search for / filter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Featured | Travel safety; OSINT; Government policy | Founder-led replies, no agency involvement. |
| Source of Sources (HARO) | Travel; Public safety; Risk | Replies within four hours on weekdays, same day on weekends. |
| Qwoted | Travel; Geopolitics; Risk | Same response policy as direct email. |
Direct contact
Press inquiries
Email hello@warnely.com with "Press" in the subject line and your publication, story angle, and deadline in the body.
Response-time commitment: within four working hours on UK weekdays (09:00 to 18:00 London time), same-day on most weekends. For breaking-news queries on holidays, mark the email URGENT in the subject and we will reply within two hours.
Embargo policy
We honour embargoes when both parties agree to the time in writing. If you are working on a story that involves an unreleased Warnely product feature, dataset, or methodology change, get in touch and we can arrange a pre-publication briefing.
Corrections
If any figure on the Warnely website, in a Warnely dataset, or in published coverage we have placed is incorrect, please email hello@warnely.com with the URL and the corrected number. We acknowledge corrections within 24 hours.
This page is updated whenever the dataset, statistics, or contact policy changes. Last refreshed in May 2026.