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Jewish World Review
A vacation revolution
By
Jim Mullen
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Have you noticed that most of the countries having revolutions these past few weeks are all great vacation spots? I hadn't heard of Tunisia before the recent uprising, and couldn't find it on a map if you offered me round-trip airfare. But once it was in the news, and they started showing pictures of its long, warm, sandy, empty beaches and date palms swaying above the noisy protesters, I started thinking, "I could go for some of that."
It turns out that Tunisia has been a big tourist spot with Europeans for a long time. It's their Florida, but with vacationing Swedes instead of Canadians. It's on the North African coast, a quick ferry ride south of Sicily or a short flight from the colder parts of the continent. It used to be a French colony so they speak French and Arabic, but like most tourist spots, the people in the hospitality business all speak at least a little English.
But during the middle of a revolution, the tourists stop coming and the airports are jammed with people trying to leave. Which is just backwards. I'll bet you could have gotten a five-star resort hotel on the beach in Tunisia for next to nothing at the height of the rioting. People should be storming their travel agents begging to get a beachfront bargain in Tunisia.
The same with Egypt. No one was rioting at the pyramids. The whole uprising took place in a square that most tourists would never see. While the Egyptians were busy kicking out their autocrat and his rich friends, you and I could have been visiting the Sphinx and Luxor for a song. The tour guides were begging for business, let the haggling begin. The one complaint most tourists have about visiting the ancient wonders of Egypt is the unavoidable hordes of fellow tourists. Not a problem during the uprising. If you always wanted to go and help the local economy, the revolution was your big chance. And if antiquities aren't your thing, you could always join deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. If you want a nice vacation, find out where your local strong man spends his time, and have a wonderful time. Dictators always know where the best, most secure vacation spots are, because there's nothing worse than having your afternoon spa interrupted by a coup.
This week, they're demonstrating in Yemen, Libya and Bahrain, and that's just the beginning. Go do a Google Earth tour of Bahrain -- I didn't know where it was, either -- and tell me that it doesn't look like nice getaway. The whole country is about the size of Manhattan, yet it has miles of uncrowded beaches and plenty of deserts, too. It has some of those man-made islands like Dubai. Bahrain doesn't need all that indoor skiing and the world's tallest building nonsense. That could be their advertising slogan -- "Bahrain -- It's Dubai light!"
So, have we missed all the revolutionary travel bargains? Not to worry, you can start your own uprising. Pick a place you'd really like to visit but can't afford, say Hong Kong or Britain or Italy or Disney World or New York City, and start Facebooking and Twittering that it's time for a regime change. I watched the all the news coming out of Egypt, and all the reporters say that all you have to do is tweet somebody that you're unhappy and, a week later, after some deadly street fighting where they pretty much just kill the locals, not tourists, the dictators pack up their money and leave on their private jets. Then you just wait for the vacation bargains to start rolling in. And be sure to ask for a spa not too close to the killing.
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Jim Mullen is the author of "It Takes a Village Idiot: Complicating the Simple Life" and "Baby's First Tattoo."
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