Travel medicine practitioners often constitute the first point of medical contact for ill returning travellers, and nonspecific symptoms such as…
Browsing: Travel Safety
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…
For much of the twentieth century, remote and environmentally challenging locations catered to only small numbers of dedicated participants in…
Travel advisories have assumed great importance in endeavouring to secure the safety and security of travellers (see Chapter 21). National…
Three years, 38 search and rescue (SAR) missions, and thousands of first-aid incidents after my first encounter with the Japanese…