Although the title here is quite misleading, it is also quite true. Holidays to Samoa and Australia have gone up a substantial amount, and considering the time of year this is a big thing. But is it really that people want to go on holiday to these places. Are these people going to see if people they know are OK, or just trying to help out in some way.

People have been booking Hotels and Flights to Samoa in order to check on others that have been holiday to the same location. Also there are those that are even taking time off work t travel to Samoa to see if they can help with rebuilding or just helping the people who have been stranded by the tsunami.

This has happened in other areas of the world as well, not just the Samoa disaster. When the Indian Ocean Tsunami happened and went out of control holidays to this area went through the roof. Sri Lanka holidays went up because of the help that was needed, and although the Maldives is still a very difficult place to get to in these times (because it is a mass of islands and islets) it still received a lot of tourism / help.

So even when there is a natural disaster, people still want to go to these destinations. The disaster around the world, I thought would put people off going on holidays, but there seems to be an opposite effect. Do people still want to go to these places, even once there has been a natural disaster? When you look at the sales for holidays to these places, they don’t drop as much as you might think. People even still try to get a Luxury hotel to stay in, and they get some good prices.

People are amazing creatures, to actually want to go on holidays to these places is an interesting decision. But for those that go on Sri Lanka holidays, Maldives holidays and Christmas holidays to help out others, then good luck to them.