Description |
xiv, 247 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
Series |
Advances in tourism research |
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Advances in tourism research series.
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Contents |
1. Current status of tourist health and safety -- 2. Traveller's health: an epidemiological overview -- 3. Evaluating the nature, scope and extent of tourist accidents: the New Zealand experience -- 4. Risk acceptance in adventure tourism - paradox and context -- 5. Current status and future directions in the adventure tourism industry -- 6. Managing tourist safety : the experience of the adventure tourism industry -- 7. Current issues in travel and tourism law -- 8. Travel agents' health and safety advice -- 9. Safety and security for destinations : WTO case studies -- 10. International tourists and transport safety -- 11. Towards a framework for tourism disaster management -- 12. Biting midges and tourism in Scotland -- 13. Tourist safety and the urban environment -- 14. Risk, rights and responisbilities in tourist well-being : who should manage visitor well-being at the destination? |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Subject |
Travel -- Health aspects.
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Tourism -- Health aspects.
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Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology.
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Travel.
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Vaccination.
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Author |
Wilks, Jeff.
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Page, Stephen, 1963-
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LC no. |
2003046741 |
ISBN |
0080440002 alkaline paper |
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