Show travellers your hotel, tour, or transfer business is a safe choice. The free Verified by Kakapo badge puts your destination's live safety score on your website, updates itself, and links back to your verified page. Apply free, no code.
Apply free to get your Verified by Kakapo badge.
Safety is one of the first things a traveller checks before they book a hotel, a tour, or a transfer, especially somewhere they have never been. A Verified by Kakapo badge answers that worry directly: it shows your destination's live, independently calculated safety score right on your own website, and marks your business as verified by a travel-safety platform. It is the same reassurance a review score gives, but for the question travellers actually hesitate over, which is whether the place is safe.
The badge is built for travel businesses whose customers weigh safety when they book: hotels, guesthouses and hostels; tour and activity operators; airport transfers and private drivers; bike, scooter and car rentals; and travel agencies. It works best in destinations that already score well, where the live safety score is a point in your favour.
It is free. There is no fee to apply, no subscription, and nothing to buy. Kakapo is an independent travel-safety publication, and the badge is a trust signal for travellers, not a paid product.
It is a small badge you add to your website that shows your destination's live Kakapo safety score, marks your business as verified, and links back to your own verified page on kakapo.travel. It updates itself as the safety score changes, so you never have to touch it again.
Travel businesses whose customers care about safety: hotels and guesthouses, tour and activity operators, airport transfers and drivers, bike and car rentals, and travel agencies. It works best in destinations that already score well, where the live score is a point in your favour.
After you are verified you get a single line to paste into your website. It works on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow, GoDaddy, Duda, and any site that allows an HTML or embed block. If you would rather not edit the site yourself, you can pass the line to your web person and they can add it in under a minute.
No. It is a single lazy-loaded embed served by Kakapo, and it updates itself, so there is nothing to maintain and no measurable impact on your page speed.
No account and no private data. To connect the badge, Kakapo only uses your public website domain to look up your verified business. Nothing is written back to your site.
Apply on this page with your business name, city, and website. Kakapo checks that you are a real travel business operating in a destination we score, and once verified you receive your badge and your public verified page.
Kakapo is an independent travel-safety platform. We publish live safety scores for destinations worldwide, computed from national travel advisories, local crime indices, healthcare-access data, and air-quality APIs. The Verified by Kakapo badge is free for verified travel businesses, and being verified does not require paying us or advertising with us.