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Tourism and Health: Risks, Research and Responses(Cutting Edge of Tourism S.)


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Travel carries implications for health, individually and collectively, and health risks associated with travel carry implications for the travel and tourism industries. This study points out the health dimensions of travel and tourism, and calls for awareness and practical collaboration from those in the industry and in the social and health sciences. It encompasses a wide range of issues, with historical, political and economic ramifications.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Overviews of travel and health: health and travel - historical perspectives, emerging problems, Jonathan Cossar; the epidemiology of travel-related health problems, Robert Steffen; important issues influencing the health of travellers, Ron Behrens; current research on health and tourism issues and future directions, Douglas Frechtling. Part 2 Tourism and health risks - realities and representations: injuries and accidents among international tourists in Australasia - scale, causes and solutions, Stephen Page and Denny Meyer; the Indian plague scare of 1994 - a case study, Peter Grabowski and Santanu Chatterjee; British tourists in the Gambia - health precautions and malaria prophylaxis, Stephen Clift and Peter Grabowski. Part 3 Sexual behaviour and sun-seeking among tourists: New Zealand student tourists - risk behaviour and health, Chris Ryan and Emma Robertson; who wants to be a "peely wally"? Glaswegian tourists' attitudes to sun tans and sun exposure, Simon Carter; licensed for thrills - risk taking and tourism, Eugenia Wickens; sexual behaviour and travel - quantitative and qualitative perspectives on the behaviour of genito-urinary medicine clinic attenders, Paula Black. Part 4 Travel and HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives: prostitution, intavenous drug use and travel - European HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives, Georg Broring; the Europe against AIDS summer campaign 1995 - an evaluation of work in the United Kingdom, Lynette Thomas et al; an HIV/AIDS prevention programme for Swiss travellers, Martin Buechi and Martin Werner.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781855674745
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
  • Publisher Imprint: Cengage Learning EMEA
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Risks, Research and Responses
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1855674742
  • Publisher Date: 20 Nov 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Cutting Edge of Tourism S.
  • Weight: 560 gr


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