Frommer Watch: Boycott Burma?
In this week’s installment of a single of TheExpeditioner.com’s most well-liked and closely followed recurring columns, “Frommer Watch,” we obtain the godfather of globe-trotting in his every day blog calling for a boycott of travel to Burma in the wake of that country’s ruling military junta’s current trial of pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Frommer goes additional, calling out guests to the nation, accusing their travel dollars of assisting to prop-up and assistance the oppressive government. Not surprisingly, this assertion kicked up very a lively debate from his readers (the greatest in a while) on the question of regardless of whether travel to a non-democratic nation is in fact immoral (or at least unjustifiable). Wayne from New Zealand argues in the reader comments section that the economy is dependent on tourism, and that no tourism means no food on the table for several persons of Burma. This elicited an unusually harsh reacti...