A UK-based travel agency says their tours to Afghanistan have become their best-seller despite the British Foreign Office's warning that travel to the country is &extremely dangerous&.Speaking to The Independent, Dylan Harris, founder of Lupine Travel, said: &It's the last place I expected to sell so well.Harris said Afghanistan has become their most popular destination and that &it's actually safer to travel there now than it was before.He said: &Last month we put three trips on sale for next year.
They sold out immediately.Now we&ve got eight trips next year and they&ve all completely sold out.There was always demand for it prior to the Taliban [takeover], but I think a lot of people were worried about safety.
Whereas now people aren''t as concerned about the safety issue.The only thing: there's a lot more red tape than there used to be.
So every time we move from one city to the next, it's a case of getting all the paperwork checked out.Officials from the Ministry of Information and Culture say that a large number of foreign tourists have visited Afghanistan in the past two years.Mohammad Nabi, head of the tourism department of the Balkh Department of Information and Culture, says: &Tourists from different countries have visited Afghanistan and were very happy with their visit and the security situation in Afghanistan.Abdul Jabbar Noorzai, head of Herat Museum's archive department, says: &In the past nine months, about 9,223 domestic and foreign tourists, as well as students from public and private schools, visited Herat Museum.The post Afghanistan a surprise best-seller destination for British travel agency first appeared on Ariana News.