“…ISTM focuses on disease and injury prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, with an emphasis on understanding, impacting, and changing environmental, behavioral, or host variables that affect travelers, migrants, and refugees. The objectives of the ISTM are (1) to promote health in travel, (2) to develop guidelines for the practice of travel medicine, (3) to educate health care professionals, public health professionals, and the travel industry; (4) to provide a scientific focus for travel medicine; (5) to stimulate the professional advancement of travel medicine practice; (6) to promote the distribution of rapid exchange of information relating to the matter of medications needed for travel; (7) to facilitate international contacts between travel medicine practitioners; (8) to promote the development and evaluation of safe, effective, preventive and curative interventions; and (9) to encourage research in travel medicine, including promoting international collaborative studies. Based on the objectives of the ISTM, in its application in the field to tourism, when tourists first arrive at the targeted tourism destination, it is important for them to hold valid information about existing health services.…”