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The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment has tak­en of­fence at the de­ci­sion by the Unit­ed King­dom to is­sue a trav­el ad­vi­so­ry this week, warn­ing British trav­ellers of ter­ror­ist at­tacks on the Caribbean is­land.

For the first nine months of this year, Bar­ba­dos wel­comed 160,749 stay­over vis­i­tors from the UK, a slight de­crease from the pre­vi­ous year, with the Unit­ed States be­com­ing the new top mar­ket, though UK vis­i­tors still rep­re­sent a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of tourism.

In its trav­el ad­vi­so­ry, the British For­eign, Com­mon­wealth and De­vel­op­ment Of­fice (FC­DO) cau­tioned that “al­though there’s no re­cent his­to­ry of ter­ror­ism in Bar­ba­dos, at­tacks can­not be ruled out.