State Department Warnings: What’s in a Name?
Decoding US government warnings to international travelers from the US Unrest and violence cause travelers — especially Americans — to reconsider international travel plans. Ten percent more Americans visited India in 2007 than in 2006, but with the recent terrorist attacks in Mombai (aka, Bombay) in which six Americans were among the 170 people killed, [...]
Havana, Here We Come — Hopefully
A very few years ago, a friend who travels extensively in developing countries invited me to join her on a trip to Cuba. I was tempted, but the Bush administration’s punitive attitude toward tourism to the Latin American outlyer to the “axis of evil” had me concerned. American tourists could be fined heavily ($15,000 sticks [...]
