“Our tours offer unique destinations at affordable prices” – so promises the Wigan-based company Lupine Travel, founded by Dylan Harris. For a snapshot of those destinations, you could always read Natalie Wilson’s article on countries on the Foreign Office no-go list. Haiti, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen …
An FCDO warning against travel means normal holiday insurance is invalidated. Even so, there is evidently an appetite for travel to these locations, and Dylan has been meeting it for the past 18 years. But the extraordinary shifts in geo-politics in the first half of January 2026 are unprecedented, he says.