irina said:If you don't respect another sovereign nation's way of doing things, perhaps you should not go?
Indeed.
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I agree Irina, well said. Of course it affects the tourists. Disrupting the government's cash cow is sometimes the only way to get them to listen. To those who are upset by this action should thank their stars it isn't an uprising, a military coup with death & destruction as in some countries. Then you'd be worried more about your lives than whether or not you can get to a beach!
