While travel in Europe may seem pretty uneventful, if Brits plan on exploring further afield in 2025, they should consider the unusually high level of volatility across the world.On top of ongoing crime, armed conflict, and political oppression in places such as the Middle East, Ukraine, and North Korea, recent developments have seen other countries wiped from the Foreign Office's "safe to travel" lists.

In recent months, governments have been toppled, civil unrest has broken out and natural disasters have deemed countries once regarded as relatively safe to explore a no-go destination. In a report released by risk analysis companies Safeture and , researchers concluded that the "security situation has deteriorated in 77 countries" around the globe. Revealed below are 12 countries that were once loved by tourists but are too dangerous to visit this summer.

Backpackers would cross the Khyber Pass and make their way to destinations like Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi as cheaply as possible.