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Coronavirus putting you off booking

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We usually travel to Thailand in October each year to stay with friends and holiday. There are always a large amount of Chinese tourists in the resorts, and we’ve always noticed a lack of hygiene/manners when coughing or sneezing, every time we go. Obviously now things have changed massively (I think this is just the tip of a very hidden iceberg)
has the threat/concern of Coronavirus put you off booking an overseas holiday later in the year this year?
has the threat/concern of Coronavirus put you off booking an overseas holiday later in the year this year?
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I'm flying to Australia next week on 2 planes full of different nationalities, all of whom could have some sort of virus.
Then on a cruise ship around New Zealand - again with multiple nationalities & potential contagious/infectious diseases.
At the end of March I'll be on another cruise ship - with mostly brits, some of whom will not have my high standards of personal hygiene. And again in November.
I will visit my son in Hong Kong at least once this year, despite the ongoing protests and threat of coronavirus, as I have done every year since he started working there in 2012.
I may also travel elsewhere.
I may not have many years left when I'm still able to travel long haul, so, in short short, unless FO advises against travel to certain destinations, I will not live my life based on what if ....??.
I wanted to post because my experience of Chinese is very different to the OP. I live a few hundred yards from a hall of residence which is mostly full of Chinese students. In my experience they are immaculately clean, beautifully dressed and many of them habitually wear face masks (because of air pollution?). Of course, they will be the children of very wealthy Chinese (to be able to afford large fees and living costs) but they've given me a very positive impression.