A search for human remains in a cellar of a former children's home is fuelling fears on the Channel island of Jersey that its image as a tourist destination could be tainted.
A crisis meeting of hotel and travel trade bosses was held Friday in the tourist office in Saint Helier, capital of the biggest of the Channel islands also well known as a tax haven.
"Nothing (in Jersey) has changed, it's a caring, compassionate and secure island," Philip Ozouf, Jersey's economic development minister, told AFP, in a message that has been repeated by tourism professionals on the island, which attracted nearly 400,000 visitors last year, 80 percent of whom were British.
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