SW radios for travel, do they still make sense?

After 15 years of service my once trusty Sony ICF SW-20 needs replacing.

Unfortunately the BBC has discontinued their North America Service. But for travel to the Caribbean, South and East Africa, Asia Pacific and the Near East does it still make sense to buy a new SW pocket radio? The main use would be to listen to "English Language News Broadcasts".

I was thinking to buy a KAITO WRX 911 or TecSun 100 (which sell for $30.- or so).
The Kaito WRX 911 and TecSun 100 are light-weight, cheap and cheerful AM, FM plus 9 SW bands "World-Receivers". POCKET sized, analog tuned, sensitive and selective enough to pick up the BBC or similar. This for the days when on FM you have the "take it or leave it" choice of Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali and Moldovian.

If you enjoy listening to shortwave radio, then it makes sense. (I'm not familiar with this particular radio, so I'm endorsing the idea, not the specific radio.) The BBC still broadcasts in English to many parts of the world other than the US, so you can still listen to it when you travel. And, there are other English-language broadcasters besides the BBC, so you can still get some use out of it from the US.

When conditions are right, you might even pick up a BBC broadcast in the US that is intended for another part of the world.