Back to Iraq?

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.15.03 | 11:34 PM ET

Are people ready to travel to Iraq? Absolutely. Travel + Leisure reports that some adventure travel tour companies are already taking reservations for future trips. “A bunch of people have already signed up for a tour that doesn’t even exist yet,” Geographic Expeditions spokesman John Sugnet told T+L’s Bonnie Tsui. This September, the company will make an exploratory trip to gauge the situation. They hope to begin tours in spring 2004.
UPDATE: The U.S. State Department today lifted its 12-year-old restriction on visits to Iraq, according to USA Today. “[W]e still don’t think it’s a good idea to go to Iraq right now,” one official said. Duh.