Are there any responsible tourism issues in this industry?
Officials at the Tourism Convention and Visitors Association in Toronto declined to answer questions, saying the matter was not a tourism issue.
"Our response is it's not a tourism issue," said Tom Flanigan, a spokesman for Visit Florida, the state's tourism agency.
An official at South Korea's Unification Ministry said in an e-mail on Saturday that the "Mount Kumgang tourism issue cannot be resolved by the unilateral measures by the North.
Fortunately, if anyone is up to balancing both environmental and tourism issues, it's the Maldivians; it would be harder to imagine a more sophisticated and intelligent approach to managing the joint demands of tourism and the environment.
"Of course, a key tourism issue which has still to be sorted out is how the charter trains will be accommodated within the limited single-track infrastructure being provided by Transport Scotland," he said.
In the 20th and 21st centuries, in terms of trade and tourism issues, this location is more of a disadvantage because it effectively separates the island from the rest of the country.
Kenya's Tourism Board issued a statement on Monday stressing that visitors to the country are safe, and Lamu is in no way affected by the attack.
The Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, which serves as Iran's tourism ministry, issued a statement on Thursday dismissing that claim as an "ugly and false rumor," adding that Iranian officials "never encountered Israeli officials in any form".
Last year, tourism officials there issued a final count of more than 46 million visitors for 2009, about one million more than New York claimed.
