Help passengers plan their trip effectively. Provide information about travel advisories, restrictions, and procedures of a country. Notify passenger with meaningful, up-to-date messages at every stage of the Travel Journey. Present relevant information that delivers exactly what your customers need in the exact moment they need it.
What information is available?
Country Information
Many countries and regions have imposed travel bans and restrictions on who can enter or exit. The entry/exit advisory provides an up-to-date border openness status of the RegionRegion - In Sherpa's API, a region can be a country or geographic region, and is usually represented by an ISO2 or ISO3 Country Code..
Learn more about countries
Restrictions
Restrictions are used to describe policies imposed by a country, region, airline or airport that prevent certain groups of people from travelling.
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Procedures
Procedures are used to describe medical, health, safety or other procedure that is imposed by a government, an airline or an airport.
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Electronic Visa availability
Some countries have temporarily restricted or suspended their eVisa programs.
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Directionality
Procedures & restrictions include a directionality indicator so that you can tell at a glance whether a country is loosening or tightening border restrictions.
Learn more about directionality in procedures and restrictions.
Document Links
If additional documentation is required, a link to the related form is provided.
Learn more about document links related to procedures and restrictions.
Where do we get the data?
Our data is gathered from various trusted sources. Most of the information comes directly from Government Website, Travel Organizations & Services.
Source Examples:
- Canadian Government
- Australia Home Affairs
- Singapore Ministry of Health
- Coronavirus and Travel in the United States
- UK Government
- CDC
How often is information updated?
Data refresh rates depend on the data itself and vary from hours to a month. Data that is time-sensitive like advisories and restrictions is more frequently refreshed than other information.
Restrictions and procedures in the response include details about the source of information, when it was last checked and updated.
Type of queries
It is important to present relevant information to users during the travel journey. To facilitate the process, we've added helpful ways to query the data.
| Queries | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
All countries, single country or multiple countries | Get advisories, restrictions, and procedures for a country or list of countries. | In Effect |
continent | Get advisory, restrictions, and procedures of countries on a continent | In Effect |
travelHistory | Get advisory, restrictions, and procedures of a country, taking into account the passengers Travel History. | In Effect |
airport | Get procedures and restrictions introduced by an airport. | Coming soon |
airline | Get procedures and restrictions introduced by an airline. | Coming soon |
state, province | Get procedures and restrictions introduced by a state or province. | Coming soon |
Country codes
Information for a country can be queried by using ISO2 or ISO3 Country Codes)
API Reference
Access the collection via Postman.
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Compliance
Our API specification complies with the Open API standard, identified by IATA as the best practice for the airline industry.
Support
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Updated about a month ago