Travel epidemiology: WHO perspective

Gezairy, Hussein A.

doi:10.1016/s0924-8579(02)00365-5

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“…The evidence highlights that there is an increasing number of people traveling abroad and it is anticipated that this will continue 5 ; and it can be expected at the same time that there will be increased need for health care for travellers and yet relatively little is known about their actual health care needs 6 .…”

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“…This last factor is especially significant in those countries that struggle to provide adequate health services to their own nationals 7 . More information on the patterns of ill health among international travellers is necessary for the provision of preventive strategies to reduce the risks and costs associated with overseas travel 5,6,9 . In particular, the data gathered by emergency helplines is potentially a valuable source of information which may contribute to the development of the healthcare services provided by travel insurers.…”

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Illness and injury presenting to a Norwegian travel insurance company's helpline

Lerdal

Harding

Kjølstad³

2007

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

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Illness and injury presenting to a Norwegian travel insurance company's helpline

Lerdal

Harding

Kjølstad³

2007

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

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“…They hence asserted the necessity of setting up a surveillance system for protecting the safety of travellers. The establishment of a global surveillance and response system was supported by Gezairy (2003). In addition, Leggat and Klein (2001) suggested that travel insurance would be an effective choice for travellers.…”

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“…Likewise, Vaughan (1997) stated the importance of insurance for risk financing. Besides travel insurance and surveillance systems, some researchers stated the importance of offering or guaranteeing personal safety to tourists (Ryan, 1993;Sönmez, 1998;Levantis and Gani, 2000) and the increase of transparency of information related to risk incidents (Tanner et al, 1989;Laver et al, 2001;Bauer, 2002;Gezairy, 2003). The measures of insurance coverage, guaranteed personal safety, increase in information transparency and introduction of surveillance systems are therefore adopted in this study for measuring their perceived effectiveness of strengthening the confidence of travellers to travel.…”

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The perceived impact of risks on travel decisions

Law

2006

Journal of Tourism Research

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The recent phenomena of infectious diseases, natural disasters and terrorist attacks have imposed an unprecedented threat to the global tourism industry. This paper reports on a study that investigated the perceived probability of occurrence, magnitude of threat and efficacy of official media on major types of risks from 1304 international travellers. The study also examined the perceived usefulness of a set of measures that aims to strengthen the confidence of travellers. This paper should provide tourism practitioners and policymakers an updated view from the perspective of travellers, which in turn, can assist the formulation of risk management strategies, an area that has long been of interest to tourism researchers and practitioners. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Accepted June 2006Keywords: risk; perception; international travellers; Hong Kong. INTRODUCTIONT he need for travel has been widely documented in the existing tourism literature. People travel for leisure, vacation, business, visiting friends and relatives, and other reasons (McIntosh et al., 1995;Levantis and Gani, 2000;Gunn and Var, 2002). With a few exceptional situations, rational travellers do not travel for the sake of taking risk, and prior studies have therefore shown that the tourism industry is very vulnerable to direct or indirect events -commonly known as crises -that may threaten the safety of visitors (Mäser and Weiermair, 1998;Sönmez, 1998;Seddighi et al., 2001; Pacific Asia Travel Association, 2003). Leiper and Hing (1998), as well as Leggat and Klein (2001), have stated that during crises, visitors are swiftly unsettled and become largely dependent on the destinations and the host communities for support. On the basis of their econometric analyses, Levantis and Gani (2000) showed the negative relationship between demand for tourism and the number of law and order problems. Wilks and Moore (2003) further stated that good planning for expected or unexpected situations could make the major difference between wellmanaged risks and catastrophes with human injuries and economic losses.Although the topic of travel risk and its management has been widely examined by tourism researchers, the shocks occurring since 2000 have negatively impacted the worldwide tourism industry in the twenty-first century. Some examples of these shocks include the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington in 2001 (Lepp andGibson, 2003), the bombings in Bali in 2002 (Wilks andMoore, 2003), SARS and bird flu that mainly affected Asia in 2003(Hong Kong Tourism Board, 2004Pine and McKercher, 2004) host destinations and the global tourism industry throughout the entire history of human life. Visitors may therefore view tourism risks in a way in which policy-makers and industrial practitioners have never been aware. Due to the large geographical and cultural differences, visitors from different regions may, and are very likely to, view risks differently. In view of the emergence of more complex and highly threatened risks, this stu...

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“…Commercial air travel has increased dramatically since the last pandemic of influenza ( 1 ). The number of international tourist arrivals recorded worldwide in 2004 was 763.2 million; 43% of these arrivals were by air ( 2 ).…”

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