Travel promotes freedom and understanding -- but human beings being what they are, all too often politics and conflict can get in the way. What do you think about the relationship between politics and travel, and how to reconcile them?
franckreporterJust came across an interesting blog post by Beth Santos, CEO of the women-oriented travel site Wanderful on why travel is a political act. Thought-provoking! Read here.
Read more…Many voices in the civilized world have been speaking out in horrified outrage at Brunei's new edict decreeing death by stoning for gay sex, and numerous individuals and institutions joining a boycott. Should travelers and the travel industry/media join as well by not traveling to, working with, or covering Brunei, nor other entities associated with it such as the nine luxury hotels in the West owned by its sultan, such as London's Dorchester, the Plaza Athénée in Paris, and the Beverly Hills…
Read more…All across the world - Europe, the United States, Australia, Asia, and elsewhere - immigration and refugees are hot topics. But little attention has been paid to how this issue meshes with the other great mass movement of our era: tourism. An integral part of tourism is the exchange of cultures and the appreciation of the “other”, and the industry is often dependent on "importing” guest workers from abroad, who provide needed services and often also give a sense of the exotic…
Read more…These days we hear about a few Westerners (mostly young men) who have been going to Syria to get a closer look at the war, and it reminds me of several years when I was working as a guide in Palestine. My clients were, for the main part, politically engaged people of diverse backgrounds, mainly from Europe and the USA, who had been involved with Palestinian solidarity campaigning back home and wanted to see the situation for themselves... keep reading
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The government of the Maldives has shut down spas at high-end resorts because their practices do not conform to sharia. How badly will this hit Maldives tourism?
It would seem the marijuana ban would drive it back underground, which is why I thought pot was tolerated there in the first place.
No more marijuana in Holland!? "Foreign visitors will be banned from cannabis-selling coffee shops in southern Netherlands from January 1 to combat anti-social behaviour among tourists," reports the Daily Mail (UK).
"The Dutch justice ministry announced the ban after a consultation period and despite opposition from some MPs who branded the move 'tourism suicide'."
How much will this change tourism -- especially in Amsterdam?
All those with an honest interest in learning about Cuba can find a legal path, either by signing up for an appropriate open enrollment trip or by putting together their own group. (Let me know if I can help you do that: director@ffrd.org)
Religious organizations and higher education students can easily go now under a general license without any notification to or permission from bureaucrats in Washington.
Overview of legal travel:
http://cubapeopletopeople.blogspot.com/2011/03/overview-of-legal-tr...
Links to travel providers
http://cubapeopletopeople.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-travel-provi...
We continue to await OFAC's disposition on people to people licenses, emphasizing how much better it would have been if the President had authorized general licenses for all authorized travel.
John McAuliff
Cuba/US People to People Partnership
Fund for Reconciliation and Development
Obama announces loosening of restrictions on travel to Cuba. http://yhoo.it/eogiy0 Who will benefit? Who will howl?
New blog post on the effects of conflict on tourism, and the rights and wrongs of encouraging tourists to come to conflict-affected areas: http://www.tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/rubbernecking-or-learning
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