30/11/2019
Cape Verde safety rating is negligible.
Medical and security services company International SOS has ranked Cape Verde as one of the safest tourist countries, integrating the lot of just over a dozen states with a "negligible" level of risk to travelers.
The findings can be found in the Travel Risk Map, dated yesterday, 28, a map produced by that company, based in London and Singapore, which annually reports receiving five million calls for tourist assistance requests.
In this map, our country emerges as the only country in Africa rated with the “insignificant” level - the lowest of five - of travel safety risk for tourists.
In 2018, Cape Verde received more than 750,000 tourists, and the government set the goal of reaching one million annual tourists by 2021.
The highest (“insignificant”) security rating shares European countries such as Andorra, Switzerland, Monaco, San Marino, Luxembourg, Denmark and Greenland, Slovenia, Norway, Iceland and Finland, plus a dozen small island states in the Caribbean and the Caribbean. Pacific.
Moreover, in this classification, security and emergency services “are effective and infrastructure is sound,” while transport services have a high level of security.
For an “insignificant” level of security risk, International SOS rates “very low violent crime rates” without “significant political violence or civil unrest and little sectarian, community, racial or targeted violence against foreigners”.
