Travel without fear wherever you want to go -- to China, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey.

The tourist industry has become a lot more robust in recent years.

Bird flu today is not a problem for travelers. There is no case of a traveler contracting the virus. The day a pandemic will start, the picture will change totally.

What we want is to obtain information in real time, to be capable of circulating this information in real time to national tourism authorities and to the private sector so they take the best decisions.

We must ensure that people are not deterred from travelling without good reason.

There is no reason to give in to panic.