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Have terrorist attacks over the past 12 months in Europe and other places made you change your travel plans?

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In Spain last year, Barcelona, having to wait for an hour to have luggage checked with all the other punters before boarding a train for a 45 minute trip to a city close by. All the while I was imagining the same regime at Tokyo Station in Golden Week (!!!), and someone told me that it is happening in some places in China!!!! I was glad I had turned up two hours early for my train.

Then it struck me - lots of glass and aluminium fittings in a wide low-ceilinged indoor area with full open access full of people stationary and unable suddenly to move much. Why worry about the trouble of getting a device on a train? A remorseless idiot could drive a truck around in there!

And then the US goes and seeks to ban laptops on planes.

The inconvenience regime in travel overseas now. First planes, and now trains!

Travel is no fun any more, governments distrust everyone at the start: all this is signifying that the terrorists are winning.

7 ( +8 / -1 )

Specific attacks? No.

General areas of concern? Yes.

Been looking to travel to a number regions in the world for vacations and decided that many of the places on my list aren't safe enough to bring loved ones along.

6 ( +6 / -0 )

They are horrible but the statistical chance of being caught in an attack is almost nil.  So no change.  The change in atmosphere and lack of safety against low level crime and harassment in many European cities is more of a turn off.

6 ( +7 / -1 )

Not bloody likely. Otherwise they win, aye?

2 ( +4 / -2 )

I have and will do what I originally planned. No terrorist threat is going to change that.

3 ( +6 / -3 )

I just booked two overseas trip over the next two months. I can't say my travel plans have changed as a result of terrorist attacks.

1 ( +3 / -2 )

To give up your plans to travel would be saying to the terrorists that what they are doing is working, so to answer that question, NO, I am still traveling and my plans have not changed.

-1 ( +1 / -2 )

No. Lack of money? Yes.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

No, but the same cannot be said for Trump's negative impact travel to the US.

See Trump Slump https://durangoherald.com/articles/163746

2 ( +3 / -1 )

I'd be happy to travel to any country that's signed up to the Paris Climate accord, and Nicaragua too.

-1 ( +1 / -2 )

Not the threat of terrorism, no, but I did make sure not to travel through the US when travelling to Canada last month. The uncertainty and inconvenience of Trump's new security/immigration policies were an issue I wanted to avoid.

1 ( +2 / -1 )

They could bomb the airports. I am still going back to New York. No fear.

2 ( +2 / -0 )

I'm going for my usual two weeks in Syria this summer. Can't let them win.

2 ( +2 / -0 )

The only time my wallet was stolen was in Shinjuku Station.

So...

0 ( +1 / -1 )

No, I still motor up to Nago once a week. Nothing's changed.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

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