Where there is a natural disaster, there’s more tourists?
This is one of the strangest things i have seen, but i assure you it is quite true. Samoan holidays and those to Australia have both risen since the natural disasters have taken these two countries. But is it really that people want to go on holiday to these places. Are these people going to see if people they know are OK, or just trying to help out in some way.
It is said that people are going to these countries to check on loved ones. Also there are those that are even taking time off work t travel to Samoa to see if they can help with rebuilding or just helping the people who have been stranded by the tsunami.
This has happened in other areas of the world as well, not just the Samoa disaster. When the Indian Ocean Tsunami happened and went out of control holidays to this area went through the roof. Sri Lanka holidays went up because of the help that was needed, and although the Maldives is still a very difficult place to get to in these times (because it is a mass of islands and islets) it still received a lot of tourism / help.
So these holidays increase even when there is a disaster. Most people would think that these holidays would be on the decrease, but they still receive many tourists. However are there still people that go on holiday to these places after there has been a natural disaster? When you look at the sales for holidays to these places, they don’t drop as much as you might think. People even still try to get a Luxury hotel to stay in, and they get some good prices.
It is amazing what people are capable of and holidaying in these places is very odd. But for those that go on Sri Lanka holidays, Maldives holidays and Christmas holidays to help out others, then good luck to them.