The tourism industry represents a disaster vulnerability of catastrophic potential”. The dependency of most tourism operations on outsiders for income,…
Month: February 2021
Travel medicine practitioners often constitute the first point of medical contact for ill returning travellers, and nonspecific symptoms such as…
Despite an improved understanding of serious injury and illness during travel, accidents, near accidents, and maladies continue to befall tourists.…
While ultimately tourists themselves are responsible for their own health (the biopsychosocial view — Sarafino, 1998), local communities (including the…
According to the WTO (WTO, 1997; Wilks, 2002), risks to the safety and security of tourists, host communities and tourism…
Introduction There has been an increasing trend for people to travel internationally (Behrens, 1990). Ease of air transportation has ensured…
For much of the twentieth century, remote and environmentally challenging locations catered to only small numbers of dedicated participants in…