US, Aug. 7 -- Africa CDC and WHO say countries should avoid unnecessary restrictions on travel and trade and focus instead on surveillance, laboratories, preparedness and cross-border coordination. If that principle is scientifically sound, should tourism also be part of the conversation? KINSHASA/BUNIA - There is a sentence at the end of the latest joint Ebola statement from Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization that deserves considerably more attention from the global travel and tourism industry.

"Africa CDC and WHO continue to advise against unnecessary restrictions on travel or trade. Countries should instead strengthen surveillance, laboratory capacity, preparedness and cross-border coor...