No-Go Zones and Dangerous Holidays
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Laurie Taylor discusses the complex relationship between danger, travel and tourism.
Ruben Andersson asks whether Western powers should reconsider their treatment of some no-go zones and move away from a politics fired by fear.
How can we best calculate the risks of visiting countries where there is the possibility of unrest or worse? Debbie Lisle turns the lens on tourism in areas of conflict and considers what happens when soldiers become tourists and tourists enter war zones.
Producers: Natalia Fernandez and Alice Bloch
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| 0:37.0 | I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a Radio 4 podcast for thinking aloud. |
| 0:41.7 | Planning your next holiday? |
| 0:43.7 | Then perhaps you should consider the manner in which any such tourism is not only fatally |
| 0:48.2 | entangled with war, but also draws your attention to the increasing size of the no-go world. |
| 0:56.0 | Here be dragons. |
| 0:59.3 | Hello, even as I sat and watch the shocking television footage from Sri Lanka, I more or less knew that within a few short weeks I had forgotten many of the details of that terrible Easter Sunday massacre. |
| 1:13.2 | But I also suspected that one image more than any other |
| 1:16.3 | would stay with me from the coverage. |
| 1:18.5 | The tragic story of holidaymaker Matthew Lindsay, |
| 1:21.0 | who after a bomb exploded in his luxury Colombo Hotel was |
| 1:24.7 | faced with the awful choice of which of his two seriously injured children to |
| 1:29.0 | take for medical attention. Both were to die later in hospital. In much the same way, although I can no longer |
| 1:37.1 | remember the details of the horrific Tunisian terror attack back in June |
| 1:41.6 | 2015, I can still recall those images of tourists lying |
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