Chairman Chris Rowles said destinations such as Algeria, Belarus, Djibouti, Liberia and Congo, which had non-essential advice lifted against travel on Covid-19 grounds by the FCDO along with Fiji, Gambia and Malaysia on Wednesday (6 October), are "not destinations on the majority of holidaymakers’ lists".
"Is this a joke in extremely poor taste?," he added.
"The ivory towers in which the FCDO is based, remote from the real world, might have given them altitude sickness – how else to explain such a singularly bonkers statement?
