One More Holiday Destination To Cross Off Your List.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4130116/Thomas-Cook-tells-1-000-Britons-leave-Gambia.html

[mikey4444]

I find it difficulty to have much sympathy for our tourists that go to such unstable places for their holidays.

[ToraToraTora]

Like all the worlds %^$&holes, It was never on my list AOG!

[Mamyalynne]

Thanks for the tip off AOG.

TTT, keyboard still broken?

[vortex]

Mikey4444,but isn't that like saying that no aid people should have gone to Syria to help others because it is too dangerous?

[zebo]

It used to be a lovely place, we knew people with holiday homes there who loved it. The last ten years though it became very unstable with the nutjob president who looks keen to hang on to his private ATM machine for as long as he can.

[mikey4444]

Vortex...........while there may be some Brits in the Gambia for charitable reasons, the vast majority are tourists, and I have yet to hear of may tourists in Syria !

[vortex]

Mikey4444,my point was that whether tourists or aid workers they both chose to go on dangerous territory.

[yogi-bear]

As Mikey correctly mentions, it baffles me too just why anyone would go to such a volatile destination for their holidays, especially when their are so many lovely and safer countries around the world.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// and I have yet to hear of may tourists in
Syria ///

There once was, but it is now no longer on the holiday destination list, just the same as this one.

[mikey4444]

It wasn't so long ago that we had to airlift people out of Sharm....do people never learn ?

[vortex]

I know a few people that will not go to London,Paris or Brussels!

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// It wasn't so long ago that we had to airlift people out of Sharm....do people never learn ? ///

Obviously not, until the time comes that they are forced to be airlifted out.

[Bazile]

Should we cross off this one as well ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/turkey/articles/turkey-tourism-chapter-is-over-as-chaos-reigns-after-coup/

[anotheoldgit]

vortex

/// I know a few people that will not go to London,Paris or Brussels! ///

We once enjoyed a very nice holiday in Tunisia, but wouldn't dream of returning there again.

[vortex]

There are holidaymakers who will shrug their shoulders and say 'the show must go on' and the chances of being caught up in bother is a risk worth taking or that they will not be dictated to.

Then there are others who heed the advice from travel firms and boycott the destination and vow never to return.

Human nature.

[mikey4444]

Yes, I agree about Tunisia, where I also had a really smashing holiday. Wonderful Roman ruins and the people were so nice.

Its a terrible tragedy that its economy has been ruined by such a very small minority. Hopefully it will come good again.

[EcclesCake]

Call me mad, but I have visited war zones and conflict zones for holidays. I have a robust attitude to risk analysis and have declined the offer of taking the AK47 when heading out for a picnic.

I have had many very enjoyable holidays in various African countries, Gambia has never appealed due to the seemingly high number of middle aged women looking to pick up a toy boy. Not my scene at all.

[vortex]

My uncle went to the Yemen about 15 years ago and joked in the resultant slide-show that it was common for everyone to openly carry machine-guns!!

[mikey4444]

Vortex.....I recall seeing a British holidaymaker being interviewed on the beach at Sousse, just after the terrorist outrage of 2015. He was very miffed about having too return home and said something along the lines of ::::

" well, we have been here loads of times before, and there hasn't been any problems until now "

He then went onto say that "anyway, he felt safe now that the beach was crawling with armed Police and soldiers "!

With an idiot !

[vortex]

Mikey4444,that's given me a laugh ;-)