The American dream has turned into a nightmare — for travelers.

With the holiday travel season ahead, travel insurance provider Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection has named the safest nations in the world for 2026, finding that the Netherlands topped the list when it came to tourist security.

Meanwhile, the US was left off the compendium entirely despite the fact the crime has been on the decline nationwide.

But this wasn’t some biased, America-hating list. To compile the list of most traveler-safe nations, Berkshire Hathaway went straight to the horse’s mouth and a sked 1,800 American travelers to rank the countries they visited based on safety.

The firm then combined their answers with data from the Global Peace Index, Numbeo , and other sources spanning various factors, i

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