FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Bizarre e-mail from Marriott
View Single Post
Old Aug 15, 2010 | 8:46 pm
  #24  
DYKWIA
Ambassador: Emirates Airlines
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 19,799
Originally Posted by BrightlyBob
August is peak season but Ramadan is offputting to Western tourists as it conjures images of stars and stripes burning religious extremists.
- I'm a "Western tourist", and it conjures up no such image. Or maybe you're just referring to dumb, bigoted "Western Tourists"?

Originally Posted by BrightlyBob
Or alternatively a country where all eating, drinking and tourism is banned during the month of religious fasting.
- Only Muslims are required to fast. Anyone else can and and drink as they please - preferably out of view of locals.
DYKWIA is offline