{"id":560,"date":"2002-11-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2002\/11\/27\/travel-warnings\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T12:47:15","slug":"travel-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/travel-warnings.html","title":{"rendered":"Travel Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FCO said early November: &#039;Following the terrorist<br \/>\nattacks in Bali&#8230; in which Western tourists were deliberately targeted, the<br \/>\nthreat to British nationals in Thailand, including popular tourist areas, the<br \/>\nisland of Phuket in particular, has increased significantly.&#039;<\/p>\n<p>This statement has enraged not only the Thai and other South<br \/>\nEast Asian tourism authorities, but ABTA, that venerable travel industry<br \/>\nassociation who have asked for greater clarity in the travel advice issued by<br \/>\nthe Foreign and Commonwealth Office.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Betton, head of corporate affairs at ABTA, said:<br \/>\n&#039;Surely they should tell us if they have had a specific threat about<br \/>\nPhuket.&#039; He added: &#039;The advice they have given has scared people and we<br \/>\nhave no idea whether it is reasonable. As far as we can tell Thailand is as<br \/>\ndangerous for the 6,000 or so Britons there as London was for Americans when<br \/>\nthe IRA was bombing here.&#039;<\/p>\n<p>In response, an FCO spokesperson said: &#8220;We would not<br \/>\nmark out Phuket just to be on the safe side. Our advice is drawn from a number<br \/>\nof sources, including intelligence officials&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tour operators have been calling customers with bookings to<br \/>\nThailand, or travellers in Thailand, apprising them of the FCO advice and<br \/>\nallowing them to postpone or alter their holiday plans. Airtours has dropped<br \/>\nThailand, and Thomson Worldwide says bookings have dipped.<\/p>\n<p>Early November, the FCO updated its advice on 12 countries &#8211;<br \/>\nincluding Honduras, Seychelles, Gibraltar and the Marshall Islands in the<br \/>\nPacific &#8211; advising travellers to be &#039;aware of the risk of indiscriminate<br \/>\nattacks on civilian targets in public places&#039; although no one at the FCO<br \/>\ncould explain what this risk is, and it has promised to discuss the<br \/>\npracticality of its warnings with the Travel Advice Unit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/foreign-commonwealth-office\">Foreign and Commonwealth<br \/>\nTravel Advice<\/a> is available on 020 7008 0232\/3.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\" class=\"siderule\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/santa_line2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"60%\" height=\"36\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/santa_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"36\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FCO said early November: &#039;Following the terrorist attacks in Bali&#8230; in which Western tourists were deliberately targeted, the threat to British nationals in Thailand, including popular tourist areas, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-sidebar","tag-november-2002"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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