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Whaling already hurting tourism to Iceland (AFP)

by Populux | October 21, 2006 at 06:07 am

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REYKJAVIK (AFP) - Iceland's decision earlier this week to resume commercial whaling despite an international ban has already hurt the country's tourism industry, with several whale watching companies reporting cancellations. "We have received several emails from people saying they have decided not to visit Iceland as long as Iceland is conducting whaling," Thorunn Harvardottir of the whale watching company Nordursiglingar in eastern Iceland told AFP Friday. The Whale Watching Centre in Reykjavik ...

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at 15:08 on January 27th, 2007

As a person in a senior position in the New Zealand Tourist industry I am consciously making travellers aware of Iceland's stance on whaling. I make every effort to deter them from patronising any Icelandic business or visiting that country. It is an action which I am reluctant to take but Iceland is a far easier target than countries like Japan who, in turn, will begin to find its support base eroding as the smaller nations feel pain.

A lot of very nice people in Iceland are going to feel the bite and that is regretable but my answer is they have the option to pressure their wayward government - if they chose not to they only have themselves to blame as the World community begins a co-ordinated attack.

Unashamedly I will help lead any effort to target Iceland and other small nations supporting whaling.