The Director General of Tourism should be encouraged to use the considerable influence of her office to lobby for a stop to the criminal hunters and trappers.

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MANY TOURISTS WILL BOYCOTT THE KILLING FIELDS

To:

Mrs Phryne Michael
Director General, Cyprus Tourism Organisation


Dear Director General,

As a leading figure in perhaps the most significant branch of the Cyprus Economy you must be very conscious of the importance of the image Cyprus presents to the outside world.

This is at present tarnished by the pictures reaching European and other countries of large-scale massacre of migrant songbirds and the digusting sight of their (illegal) consumption in Cypriot restaurants.

You will be professionally aware of the increasing trend to individual 'alternative' holidays; the attempt to find new energy in quiet and natural surroundings as compensation for the stresses of our modern industrial and technological world. A lucrative market.

Efforts are being made to provide such holidays for 'eco' or 'soft' tourists on Cyprus; but they cannot expect the success they deserve against a background of shotgun blasts and dead blackcaps hanging from lime sticks.

We urge you to use the influence of your office to lobby for a firm line against the criminal perpetrators. It is in the interests of your office, and Cyprus as a whole, to clear this slur from your reputation before enjoying full membership of the European Union - where you will have difficulty in explaining such barbaric and outdated behaviour to your foreign colleagues.



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Mrs Phryne Michael
Director General
Cyprus Tourism Organisation
Leoforos Lemesou 19
P.O. Box 4535
1390 Nicosia
CYPRUS

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