Using an Importance}Performance Analysis (IPA), this paper examined business and leisure travellers' perceived importance and performance of six hotel selection factors in the Hong Kong hotel industry. The six hotel selection factors identi"ed were: Service Quality, Business Facilities, Value, Room and Front Desk, Food and Recreation, and Security. Both business and leisure travellers held the ...

This paper describes a content-based analysis of Web-based travellers’ social media Websites. The proposed methodology is based on three levels of computer-mediated analysis, namely the lexical analysis, statistical analysis and semantic analysis. It is found that the use of systematic analysis of naturally occurring discussions in social media sites can lead to much stronger information about ...

World Health Organisation and public health authority records show that 175 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis were imported to industrialised countries between 1975 and 1984. Detailed case reports were therefore analysed to identify characteristic features associated with acquisition of the infection. Of the 175 cases, 96 (55%) were diagnosed in foreign workers or their families, 47 (27%) in nat...

A pilot mobile application was developed using an online tool. The application offers up-to-date information to travellers using RSS news feeds from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, a Google Maps module was added in the application, which presents (in a map “pin” form) the current travel health notices that are currently in e...

Introduction: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spilled over to humans via wild mammals, entering the host cell using angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as receptor through Spike (S) protein binding. While SARS-CoV-2 became fully adapted to humans and globally spread, some mammal species were infected back. The present study evaluated the potential risk of mammals...

From January to April 2012, 16 cases of W135 invasive meningococcal infection were reported in France. Of these, eight were linked to a recent travel history to Sub-Saharan Africa. These cases were reported in France concomitantly with the meningitis epidemic season in Sub-Saharan Africa. Considering the high number of travellers between France and West-African countries belonging to the so-cal...

Background Artesunate (AS) is the WHO first-line treatment of severe malaria in endemic countries, in adults and children. However, despite solid evidence that AS is safe and more effective than quinine in endemic areas, its deployment in non-endemic areas has been slow, due in part to the absence of a full good manufacturing practice (GMP) qualification (although prequalification has been gran...

OBJECTIVE To illuminate findings of the survey of the health status of Gypsies and Travellers by exploring their health-related beliefs and experiences. DESIGN Qualitative study of a purposive subsample from in-depth interviews using framework analysis. SETTING The homes or alternative community settings of the participants in five geographically dispersed study locations in England. PART...