Sri Lankan embassies and diplomatic missions at destination countries could disseminate public health service messages in relation to MERS-CoV in Singhalese/Tamil languages via embassy welfare programs, social networks and through ethno-specific radio programs.
With the resumption of diplomatic relations, Vietnam has become a tourist destination for Americans, many of them former soldiers or civil servants who saw duty in the war.
Inspired by the concept of the 'two-level game' (Putnam, 1988) that captures parallel decision-making on domestic and international political spheres, these countries seem exposed to a more complex 'three-level game', where diplomatic interests towards countries of origin and destination compete alongside domestic interests.
Getting out of the diplomatic outpost and moving on to the next destination required approval from the Chinese government, however, and Beijing began forcing refugees to wait months or years before allowing them to continue on their way.
Apart from government and diplomatic relations, Turkey has been the number one tourist destination for both Israelis and Iranians, though since January it has seen a huge downturn in Israeli tourists.
(China doles out approvals with an eye to geopolitics. Vanuatu became an approved destination in 2005, after it agreed not to give diplomatic recognition to Taiwan).
The crisis is having diplomatic reverberations, with Prime Minister José María Aznar insisting today that the ship's destination was the British colony of Gibraltar, an assertion denied by the ship's managers, the cargo's owners and the British government.
The new government was greeted by widespread demonstrations, diplomatic protests, and calls for boycotts on travel to Austrian tourist destinations.
"We are in touch through diplomatic and law enforcement channels with countries that might serve as a final destination or transit route," he said.
On the civilian side the main fallout from the damaged diplomatic ties is easily visible on Turkey's beaches, once a favorite vacation destination of Israelis who this year canceled en masse.
