Canucks unfazed by travel warnings
Canadians continue to flock to Asia despite of many warnings from their government about risks to their safety and health, according to website asianpacificpost.com.
Published on April 9, 2008
Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs currently has warnings about 11 Asian nations: China, East Timor, India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines and Pakistan.
Posted online Its global travel reports and warnings are posted online and regularly monitored. Last year, Ottawa's www.voyage.gc.ca website had 4.5 million visits. Travel warnings for flagged countries in Canada's "no-go" database run from mild to dire. Yet numbers of Canadians visiting such countries had changed little in recent years, the site said. "People still need to see the world and have a sense of adventure." Bernard Nguyen, a a government spokesperson was quoted saying. Of the 11 Asian countries with current travel advisories, only two have seen an increase in the warning level this year - in regard to Tibet and East Timor.
Shootings Last year, some 183,440 Canadians visited Thailand. The shooting of four Canadians in a month earlier this year - two of them fatal - barely caused a ripple it seems.
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