INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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.
