MISC> Do Not Go There: It Is Dangerous
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:47:51 -0500 (EST)
Travel Advisories are quickly becoming the scourge of the Third World.
The tourist economies of each country that becomes the danger to traveler
safety du jour is now blacklisted indefinitely and the economy, to the
extent that it is dependent on tourism, withers. The United States was
not the subject of a travel advisory after September 11, 2001, nor were
Washington D.C. and New York City. Advisories that are posted are rarely
about industrial countries and almost always about third world countries,
countries that can ill afford economic loss.
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How the West Kills Third World Children With Travel Advisories
EturboNews
<http://eturbonews.com/editions/26FEB2003.htm>
The government of a given country informs its citizens of the risks of
traveling to a certain country. Credit ratings are expressed as "a" "b"
and "c" with fine gradations in between; travel advisories have similar
risk categories, although they are expressed with some degree of
circumlocution. There are countries considered "no go areas" and there are
others that ought to be visited for essential business only; travel to
others, again, although not in the high risk category, still calls for
certain precautions.
In comparison with Moody's, there are two essential differences with
regard to these travel advisories. For one, the credit agencies try to
anticipate. In travel advisories, countries are downgraded after something
dramatic has happened there: such was the case in Kenya, Tanzania, Bali
and Yemen: classic examples of locking the door after the horse has
bolted. The other difference is that travel advisories, inasmuch as they
are anticipatory, are often based on rumor, on rumors concerning pending
acts of terrorism for instance (or rumors with regard to drinking bottled
water in East Africa). What is common to the travel advisories is that
they always target Third World countries, or, in any case, non-Opec
countries. Her British Majesty's government did not, for instance, issue a
travel advisory warning Britons not to travel to America, the state of New
York or Manhattan after September 11 or when the anthrax letters were
dropping into mail boxes.
Similarly, although there are plenty of reports and speculations with
regard to pending acts of terrorism there, there are no warnings
suggesting that travel to London, Paris or Berlin may be dangerous. There
are further notable asymmetries. People were warned off traveling to Yemen
after the murder of the Americans missionaries, not after the murder by
the Americans of the Arabs suspected to be terrorists, an act perpetuated
by remote control. Presumably, when governments issue travel advisories
they do so in the interest of their citizens - and probably also as a
defensive measure. It is unlikely that the effects of a travel advisory on
the target country, its economy and its people are ever considered. One
can empty the hotels of a country and keep them empty with the stroke of
the pen. One can hurt people and eventually, though the ripple effect,
kill them, administratively. If there are no tourists in Zanzibar, more
Zanzibari children will die than would have otherwise, certainly more than
the number of tourists who would have been likely to be hurt by a bomb in
a hotel. But the most disturbing consequence of telling people not to
travel here and there for fear of terrorism, sorry, the assumed high risk
of terrorism, is the encouragement so given to terrorists.
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Those travel advisories
Posted:11:28 PM (Manila Time) | Nov. 12, 2002
By Amando Doronila
<http://www.inq7.net/opi/2002/nov/13/text/opi_amdoronila-1-p.htm>
Advisories underscore the tendency of First World countries to close ranks
in using terrorism as a reason to promote their own tourism while
discouraging their nationals from traveling to Third World countries
vulnerable to terrorist attacks. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001
attacks in New York, both First World and Third World countries were
equally at risk from these attacks. Both their tourist industries were
affected, but in the battle for survival, Western countries have to save
their own skins first, so they invoke patriotism to shore up their tourism
industries and they damn tourism in vulnerable Asian countries.
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