Some people reconsider international travel plans in wake of terrorist attacks and unrest
“I had a gentleman who came in today who had a cruise booked for Europe. One of the ports is in Turkey, and he’s considering cancelling.”
Kay Everley is a travel consultant with Sunshine Travel and Cruise in Palm Desert.
While she says some customers have expressed hesitation when traveling abroad, many are still up for a trip.
“People understand and realize that if it can happen in San Bernardino, it can happen anywhere,” says Everley.
“It’s definitely scary, everything that’s happening, but I would never plan on going to a place that’s like dangerous or something like that,” says David Alpeter, who’s visiting Palm Springs.
Dangerous locations have become more and more unpredictable.
“You don’t really know what’s going to happen, where or when. It’s sort of nerve-wracking,” says Christine Holanda, who was picking up her daughters from the airport after a trip to Phoenix.
She says letting them travel alone even within the United States was scary for her.
Obinne Onyeador says she’d be nervous too, but probably not enough to hold her back.
“It’s kind of a risk for that,” Onyeador says, “But I feel like at this point if I really wanted to go abroad, you kind of just have to put faith in that it’s going to be okay.”
“Most of the people that are booking now understand what the world’s situation is,” says Everley, “They’re not for the most part going to let that deter their lives.”
The US State Department does have a Worldwide Caution in effect. Turkey and Haiti were both put on the travel caution list today.
