Sen Yai
August 4th, 2007, 14:06
....according to UK newspaper The Guardian
On the face of it, holidaying in Thailand may seem less dangerous than, say, Iraq or Afghanistan. But according to new Foreign Office figures released this week, Thailand is the place where British tourists are most likely to get into the sort of trouble that requires consular assistance. For a start, more British tourists die there than anywhere else. Some 224 Britons died in Thailand between April 2005 and March last year .......but.........Most of those deaths are of long-term elderly British residents........
The 2nd and 3rd most 'dangerous' destinations are Australia and India according to the UK Foreign Office information quoted by The Grauniad, which true to form, manages to confuse the facts, with Czech Republic 4th.
To get an idea of why the Czech Republic is now the fourth most dangerous holiday destination for Brits, you need only go to www.praguepissup.com (http://www.praguepissup.com/), which offers two nights in Prague for as little as ┬г42.
Read the full story in The Grauniad (http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/aug/03/1)
On the face of it, holidaying in Thailand may seem less dangerous than, say, Iraq or Afghanistan. But according to new Foreign Office figures released this week, Thailand is the place where British tourists are most likely to get into the sort of trouble that requires consular assistance. For a start, more British tourists die there than anywhere else. Some 224 Britons died in Thailand between April 2005 and March last year .......but.........Most of those deaths are of long-term elderly British residents........
The 2nd and 3rd most 'dangerous' destinations are Australia and India according to the UK Foreign Office information quoted by The Grauniad, which true to form, manages to confuse the facts, with Czech Republic 4th.
To get an idea of why the Czech Republic is now the fourth most dangerous holiday destination for Brits, you need only go to www.praguepissup.com (http://www.praguepissup.com/), which offers two nights in Prague for as little as ┬г42.
Read the full story in The Grauniad (http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/aug/03/1)