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Stag and hen parties Put stag or hen parties into an internet search engine and you get a long list of companies offering to organise these for you, from Blackpool and Newquay to Barcelona and Prague. Many offer clean fun such as go-karting or white-water rafting, but it is also possible to find those that include sex clubs along with bar crawls. According to a 2005 survey by Egg online bank Britons spent £430million that year on trips abroad to celebrate the last days of single life. However some cities, such as Blackpool , have started to police the unwelcome drunkenness often associated with such trips, or find ways to prevent their centres becoming a magnet (eg Eastbourne) A Foreign Office report in 2008 showed how the reputation of young Brits abroad was at an all-time low with the increase in the number of arrests. Members of the Open Horizon group visited Romania to visit an organisation working to prevent trafficking. On arrival at the airport, maps were handed out – but only to the men in the group. These maps, and the only ones of the city available in the hotel, were full of adverts for massage parlours, "gentlemen's clubs" and other similar venues. Similar assumptions seem to apply in other venues such as Riga
but the Latvian government is not so happy.
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