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By Tendai Maphosa
London
03 January 2008


The British Foreign Office is advising Britons against all but essential travel to Kenya because of the violence following the disputed presidential elections. As Tendai Maphosa reports from London the warning and the violence are cutting into Kenya's lucrative 1 tourism industry, which relies heavily on European tourists escaping the winter cold.
 
The travel warning recommends that those already in Kenya stay indoors and exercise extreme caution and seek advice locally either from their tour operator or the local authorities if they want to travel.  The Foreign Office is also warning against attending political gatherings 2 and large public meetings.


Tour operators in the United Kingdom have suspended holiday packages to Kenya until the situation there improves.


The Association of British Travel Associations, an umbrella body for travel agents says about four hundred tourists who had been scheduled to fly to Kenya have postponed 3 their trips. Sean Tipton is a spokesperson for the association.


"Clearly holidays can't count as essential travel, because of that British tour operators have two flights one going out on Friday and another one on Saturday both those flights will still be going, but they will be flying out empty," he said.  "They won't be taking any more customers out to Kenya.  The reason they are being sent is they were due to return people to the UK.  There is another charter flight which should go out on Monday at the moment that's still scheduled to go because the advice to Kenya is changing very rapidly, but if the Foreign Office is still advising against all but essential travel, that flight will also be canceled."


Another umbrella body the Federation 4 of Tour Operators also announced the suspension of holiday trips to Kenya with departures due up to Saturday January 5th.


In a statement it said the situation is being reviewed daily and any changes to departures planned after 5 January will be made over the coming days.


Media reports say there are about 6,000 British citizens currently traveling in Kenya.




adj.赚钱的,可获利的
  • He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
  • It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。
聚集( gathering的名词复数 ); 收集; 采集; 搜集
  • His conduct at social gatherings created a lot of comment. 他在社交聚会上的表现引起许多闲话。
  • During one of these gatherings a pupil caught stealing. 有一次,其中一名弟子偷窃被抓住。
vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发)
  • The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
  • The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
n.同盟,联邦,联合,联盟,联合会
  • It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
  • Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
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