Scottish Tourist Board not worried about travel boycott
http://www.gadling.com/2009/08/25/scottish-tourist-board-not-worried-about-travel-boycott/
Last week's controversial release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison has sparked calls for a travel boycott of Scotland. Al-Megrahi was convicted of involvement in the plot to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. A total of 270 people died. He was given a life sentence but released on compassionate grounds and allowed to return to Libya because he's dying of prostate cancer and has less than three months to live.
Scotland fights back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/aug/25/twitter-boycott-scotland
Official defends Lockerbie decision
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-08-24-scotland-boycott_N.htm
15 years
I find it hard to believe that anyone would botcott Scotland for tourism based upon this decision. Most tourists have little interest in the political decisions made by a countries leaders. Even if they did, this was a one off decision which is now over - it's not as if a boycott could change anything. Personally I think the decision was right. Compassion isn't just about showing mercy to those who deserve it or who have done nothing wrong.
15 years
I think it probably wasn't a good idea to release the prisoner (from my limited knowledge of the situation), but it's not a reason for a tourism boycott. If I boycotted every country that made a political decision I disagreed with (including the US) I would have to live on an uninhabited island somewhere. :)
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