The most dangerous countries for tourists

Based on data provided by the consulting agency in the field of security iJet Intelligent Risk Systems and Control Risks, Forbes magazine has compiled a list of the most dangerous countries in the world for tourists. Recommended a trip there, accompanied by professional bodyguards or not recommended at all.




The rankings iJet agency takes into account takiefaktory as crime rates, security services, civil unrest, terrorism, kidnapping and geopoliticheskayastabilnost in the country, giving it a rating from 1 to 5, where 1 - samyynizky threat level 5 - the highest . Control Agency Risksotsenivaet severity of a country as extremely high, high, medium, low or negligible.

Thus, the ten most dangerous countries for tourists is as follows:

1. Somalia. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: extremely high stepenugrozy for safety and movement of tourists. Among the dangers of travel to this country, you can call vooruzhennyestolknoveniya, kidnapping for ransom, pirates attacks and mines.



2. Iraq. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: extremely high level of threat to the safety and movement of tourists, there is a risk of terrorist attacks. The most dangerous areas of the country - Baghdad, cut Tikrit in the north to Hilla in the south and from Ramadi in the west to Mandali in the east.



3. Afghanistan. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: extremely high level of threat to the safety and movement of tourists, there is a risk of terrorist attacks. Terrorist attacks occur both in Kabul and in other cities of the country.



4. Haiti. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: high level of threat to the safety and movement of tourists; extremely high level of threat to movement in Port-au-Prince. Despite the democratic parliamentary and presidential elections of the country, which took place in February 2006, Haiti is no problem to get a firearm, corruption is rampant among the police and the justice system is ineffective.



5. Pakistan. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: high level of threat to tourists, there is a risk of terrorist attacks, a high degree of threat to movement on the Karachi and Baluhistanu. It should be noted that in December 2007, the country has been killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.



6. Sudan. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: extremely high level of threat to the safety and movement in Darfur; high level of threat to the safety and movement on southern Sudan, the border with Ethiopia and Eritrea regions.



7. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: high level of threat to tourists' safety and movement - extremely high level of threat to the safety and movement in the Ituri region.



8. Lebanon. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: high level of threat to tourists' average level of threat to movement throughout the country, the average degree of the threat of terrorist acts.



9. Zimbabwe. Evaluation iJet: 5. Evaluation of Control Risks: high level of threat to tourists' insignificant level of threat of terrorist attacks, the average level of threat to movement throughout the country.



10. Palestine. Evaluation iJet: The Gaza Strip - 5; West Bank - 4. Evaluation of Control Risks: high level of threat to the safety and movement of tourists.