TravelPerk, a Europe-based travel management platform, has launched a standalone API (application programming interface) product aimed at providing the industry with up-to-date information on travel restrictions and risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The TravelSafe API is a monthly subscription product that lets travel providers integrate pandemic-related information on point-to-point restrictions between destinations during the booking process. The service pulls data from official sources and local governmental websites that TravelPerk says is cross-referenced by its own customer care agents. The tool also calculates the risk level for travel to a particular country, which TravelPerk says is based on real-time analysis of the reproductive rate of the epidemic (RO).The API launch follows TravelPerk’s acquisition of risk management startup Albatross in July.