Travel Safety
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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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SARS and Travel Medicine
Travel medicine practitioners often constitute the first point of medical contact for ill returning travellers, and nonspecific symptoms such as…
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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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Sources of Health, Safety and Security Risk in Tourism
According to the WTO (WTO, 1997; Wilks, 2002), risks to the safety and security of tourists, host communities and tourism…
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Trends Promoting Outdoor Adventures
For much of the twentieth century, remote and environmentally challenging locations catered to only small numbers of dedicated participants in…
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Travel Advisories In recent times
Travel advisories have assumed great importance in endeavouring to secure the safety and security of travellers (see Chapter 21). National…
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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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