COVID-19 pandemic has affected many businesses from all around the globe and one of them is hospitality segment. Because lockdowns restrictions on travel, hotels have suffered huge losses. After were relaxed, started opening door for tourists with various precautionary measures. As segment tries to recover setback due COVID-19, this study explores steps or strategies taken by five countries (Ch...

In this paper some experimental sequential models for the simulation of trip-chains are presented; the models have been calibrated on the base of a survey made in a medium-sized town. This work is part of a research, effected by the Department of Regional Planning of the University of Calabria, to forecast travel demand and to analyse travel behaviour of the transport system users. (Festa et al...

TOPIC: Transplantation TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: The regionalization of lung transplant care offers patients access to experienced clinical teams in the peri-operative time period. However, after recipients often must travel a wide range distances regularly return center for longitudinal outpatient care. It is unknown whether patient distance from residential zip code associated wi...

This study assesses the influence of managerial responses to online customer reviews on product sales. We leverage a natural experiment provided by two online travel agencies. Both agents allow customers to post reviews on hotels, but only one of the travel agents allows hotel management to post managerial responses. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find that managerial responses h...

“Travel broadens the mind” and people have been extolling the merits of travel for a very long time .The general belief is that travel is good for travelers’ mentally and physically. But while travel can indeed be interesting and exciting, and good for mental and physical wellbeing, all too often it can be harmful to a traveler's health (1) .The increase in numbers of travellers and the speed a...

Travellers are at risk of a diverse range of environmental and infectious conditions, some of which may affect the eyes and lead to blindness in severe cases. Travel-related ocular infections include onchocerciasis, leishmaniasis, cysticercosis, trachoma, dengue, loiasis, and leptospirosis. The travel medicine adviser should also recognise other hazards encountered during travel which may adver...