In October and November 2012 residents and tourists in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal, were affected by dengue fever. The outbreak waned during the unusually dry winter. Using a Monte Carlo test we investigated the hypothesis that rainy weather conveyed increased risk of dengue virus infection among tourists. Results confirmed the hypothesis. As it is unclear whether the outbreak is...

Arianna is a PDA based guide for tourists visiting cities. First goal of the project is to transform cities in open-air museums in which tourists can get reliable information, in the moment they prefer and in the best format technology can allow today at acceptable prices. Second goal is to reach the first via a commercially viable venture, in which requirements of paying tourists are systemati...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 6 January 2003 178 1 34-37 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2003 www.mja.com.au Bites and stings Interest in envenoming syndromes caused by Australian jellyfish has been intense since the deaths in early 2002 of two tourists in Queensland, attributed to the Irukandji syndrome. We review current knowledge of these envenoming syndromes, mechanisms...

The common perception of food as a mere attraction in tourism is challenged by stressing the complications and impediments experienced by tourists in the local culinary sphere in unfamiliar destinations, even when attracted to the local cuisine. Hygiene standards, health considerations, communication gaps, and the limited knowledge of tourists concerning the local cuisine are discussed, while t...

Several studies have been conducted on tourists’ activities that are suitable for understanding the typologies of these activities as a whole in time and space using the sequence alignment method (SAM). In this study, we expanded this analysis using SAM to clarify the characteristics of tourists’ activities in detail. Corresponding data were acquired by conducting a survey among tourists visiti...

Travel cost and contingent valuation methods are applied to the problem of estimating the potential consumer surpltrs avai!abfe to international nature tourists from a rain forest conservation project in Madagascar. Data are derived from srrrveys of nature tourists in Madagascar and international, nature tolrrism professionals in the U.S. and Europe. Typical trip travel cost models are used to ...

Many research studies suggest that a substantial percentage of tourists seek cultural experiences, such as visiting cultural attractions and participating in diverse cultural activities that are not ‘sun, sand and sea’ related. The World Tourism Organization suggests that more than 40% of all international tourists are ‘cultural tourists’ (Richards, 1996). The Travel Industry Association of Ame...

By presenting tourists with real-time information an increase in efficiency and satisfaction of their day planning can be achieved. At the same time, real-time information services can offer the municipality the opportunity to spread the tourists throughout the city centre. An important factor for success is if we can influence tourist day planning. Therefore we studied how tourists could be pe...

SUMMARY Canadians are motivated to travel abroad for bariatric surgery owing to wait times for care and restrictions on access at home for various reasons. While such surgery abroad is typically paid for privately, if "bariatric tourists" experience complications or have other essential medical needs upon their return to Canada, these costs are borne by the publicly funded health system. In thi...

Although physician executives are certainly aware that some patients bypass their hospital, clinic or ambulatory surgery center on the way to the airport to have care in other cities, they may be somewhat surprised to learn that an increasing number of patients are traveling to a wide variety of destinations around the world for medical, surgical and dental care. Driven by a number of forces ou...