Expect the unexpected

Terrorist incidents in hotels are thankfully rare – but there are ways to help protect yourself should the worst happen

As the year started, our TV screens were filled with news of a terrorist attack on the Dusit D2 hotel in Nairobi. By coincidence, I had been thinking of the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai’s Oberoi Trident and Taj Mahal Palace hotels in November 2008. The death toll in India over the three days of the attack was 174, with 300 wounded. In Nairobi, 21 were killed. Then in April came the news that more than 250 people were killed in bombings in Sri Lanka, which included attacks on hotels in the capital, Colombo. These depressing figures should not distract us from the fact that it is very rare to be caught up in such an outrage; nevertheless, hotels are a favoured target because they tend to have…

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Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2019

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