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The Foreign Office shares sponsored posts from its Travel Ambassadors account, which has about 1,700 followers. While Lia has almost ten times that, many of the people it's collaborated with have just a few hundred. Bethany believes the government should be targeting bigger accounts, and worries that relying on social media algorithms won't guarantee that the information is widely seen. "For me, it doesn't really work," she says. "Because if people aren't viewing the content, then how are they going to get the messaging?" The Foreign Office says it also plans to add QR codes, which take people to its methanol advice pages. But Bethany, who has launched a petition to get methanol safety warnings in schools and airports, says any messaging needs to be more "in your face". She says Australia, where she currently lives, has "very obvious signage" in airports - something she'd like to see replicated in other countries. "You don't necessarily look at the government guidance anyway," says Bethany. "And obviously, if you've got nothing in the airports, you've got nothing on the aeroplanes, there's nothing up in the hostels, where are you going to find this information? "We've still got so many people who aren't aware of this."
