Travel Ideas
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Mainstream components of adventure tours
Many half-day or single-day adventure tours, particularly high-volume tours at the lower end of the adventure tourism pyramid shown in…
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The Tourism Industry Subset According to Drabek (1995, p. 86)
The tourism industry represents a disaster vulnerability of catastrophic potential”. The dependency of most tourism operations on outsiders for income,…
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Who Should Take Responsibility for Tourist Health?
While ultimately tourists themselves are responsible for their own health (the biopsychosocial view — Sarafino, 1998), local communities (including the…
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Tourist Injury and Illness in National Parks
Three years, 38 search and rescue (SAR) missions, and thousands of first-aid incidents after my first encounter with the Japanese…
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