Articles tagged “safety”

Reports say that few locals or tourists are fleeing the country or even considering it under the assumption that North Korea’s threat is more sabre rattling than a call to action.

Distracted flying is a new phenomena, and expect the use of electronic devices in flight cockpits -- allowed to pilots during level cruising phase -- to come under increasing scrutiny after this.

It appears that aircraft rescue and firefighting operations at the four airports were in a state of disarray, with personnel distracted with other duties and suffering from a lack of training.

The minister is right to get Thailand’s rising crime under control as a dangerous reputation can have a lasting impact on a country’s tourism revenues. Just look to Colombia’s efforts to overcome its past or India’s recent drop in tourism.

These are small airports with little data to back it up either way, so the study seems self serving without the benefit of time.

Violence is clearly bad for tourism, but a travel warning isn’t an immediate harbinger for a visitor drop. The U.S. warns travelers against visiting Israel with little impact and the warnings are never mandatory blocks.

This should be a very disturbing figure to the Indian government, as was the rape and its aftermath to the image of India overall. Maybe they ought to rethink the Incredible India marketing campaign.

It would be a much more difficult task to bolster passenger rights on board cruise ships than on planes, but the need is no less necessary.

If the proper background checks have been done, then no reason why any country should be banned wholesale, short of embargoed countries like North Korea, Cuba and others.