Research, not brochure

Where We're Welcome

A two-sided guide to how travellers of colour are actually treated in twenty destinations — with the evidence attached, including the parts that spoil the pitch.

Most "safest countries" lists rank peace and stop there. Peaceful and unprejudiced are different measurements. Portugal is top-ten on the Global Peace Index and records some of the highest rates of racial profiling in the EU. Both facts belong on the same card.

Read this before you trust anything below. This is a hand-assembled starter dataset, compiled September 2026 from the public sources cited on each card. It is editorial summary, not a safety guarantee, and it has not been independently fact-checked. Index positions move every year. Always read your government's current advisory — linked on every card — before you book or fly.

Method, and its limits

Every destination gets the same three things: what genuinely recommends it, a documented concern, and links to the sources so you can check me rather than believe me.

The three labels

Documented as welcoming — there is positive evidence beyond the absence of bad news: a majority or plural population of colour, an explicit diaspora policy, or protections that are actually enforced.

Positive, with caveats — safe and workable, with a specific documented problem you should know about first.

Mixed — go informed — real attractions and real risks, where the planning matters more than the enthusiasm.

Peace Index bands, not ranks

The Global Peace Index is shown as a band (Top 10, Top 30, and so on) rather than an exact position, because exact positions change annually and a stale number pretending to be precise is worse than an honest range. Check the live index map for the current figure.

What this does not do

It does not name-and-shame countries as "racist", and it carries no invented safety score. Racism is not a national property that a number can capture — it is uneven by city, by neighbourhood, by hour, and by which minority you happen to belong to. A number would have hidden exactly what this site exists to surface.

It also cannot speak for everyone. What is unremarkable for a South Asian traveller may be exhausting for a Black one in the same city, and vice versa. Where sources distinguish between groups, so do the cards.

Sources used

Corrections

If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads as unfair to a place you know well, that is worth fixing — see contact.