Acts of terror are unlikely to stop business travellers hitting the road

LAST week this writer was presented with a dilemma. While preparing to travel to an event within walking distance of the recent suicide bombing in Istanbul, news broke of the attacks taking place in Brussels. Alongside the feeling of revulsion, a question briefly arose: should I travel to the site of one recent terror attack just as another is taking place?

Brussels caught the West's collective attention, but in many ways it is Turkey that gives more cause for alarm. The attack in Istanbul on March 19th was the fourth such incident this year. The grim truth is that it may well not be the last. As the BBC apocalyptically opined: “Turkey finds itself in the midst of a hideous vortex of overlapping security crises, struggling to tackle one without exacerbating another. With each bombing, the precariousness of Turkey's situation seems even more acute.”

Any doubt was momentary, however. Flights, meetings and hotels had all been booked. Despite the background threat there was no compelling reason not to travel. In the end it was no dilemma at all.

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