Should I be worried about going to Tunisia?

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We booked a week in July a while back for ourselves and the DC(First Choice family resort) and now DH, in light of recent events in Syria, is questioning whether we should go. At first I thought he was massively overreacting but having done some online research I'm not sure myself now.

The official government website for international travel advice doesn't really help - on a map of no-go areas we are in a green "seek advice from your travel agent" area.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Without wanting to be mean, does your DH realise that Tunis and Damascus are about 3,700 km apart?

offhand theres libya, egypt isreal between tunisia and syria so unless things implde closer to tunisa id say you are fine
i considered going there in may, was return flight times that put me off, saying that id go to egypt at the moment

I know, but he read about how far ISIS activity had supposedly reached geographically and Libya was one of the countries it had spread to so not too happy to be bordering that country.

The FCO website doesn't say "see your travel agent" for the green area, it says "see our travel advice". If the FCO deems that the area you're going to is in the orange or red zones, then I'd be astonished if the travel company would go ahead with the holiday.

Of course it is safe. If the FO thought otherwise the tour companies would have to stop flying there. We went to the FC holiday village in Tunisia twice last year - this year we are going to Egypt. It is a great holiday - we will be going back in 2016.

My sister lives in the Canaries, and her local news includes events in "mainland Africa", as both Morocco, Tunisia, etc are relevant to what is generally happening. She advised against going there. Not because of IS, but because of low level civil unrest due to local politics and disagreements internally in Tunisia. She has not seen reference to that on BBC news, but she reads French and Spanish news websites.

But I guess if you are just flying in, the tour-operator bring you to your resort, you bathe for a week or two and is ferried out again, you will probably not be affected. We were considering just booking flights, hotels, a car and go exploring....