Tourism based on interactions with wildlife is increasing in popularity across the world. A conceptual framework is presented which begins to classify the major components of wildlife tourism/recreation and indicates the roles of and the relationship between these components. It is suggested that the values of conservation, animal welfare, visitor satisfaction, and pro"tability are often in con...

On 20 June 2012, the media announced the death of Lesley Brown, aged 64 years, the world’s first ‘test-tube baby mother’. During her reproductive years, Lesley suffered from blocked Fallopian tubes, the exact problem that IVF was designed to bypass. She and her husband had to travel across southern England (from Bristol to Cambridge) to meet Robert Edwards and his physician partner, Patrick Ste...

Objective: This article reports findings from a UK-based study which explored the phenomenon of overseas travel for fertility treatment. The first phase of this project aimed to explore how infertility clinicians and others professionally involved in fertility treatment understand the nature and consequences of crossborder reproductive travel. Background: There are indications that, for a varie...

This paper investigates the relationship between participants’ motherhood desire and travel intention behaviour, through mediating role of attitude, subjective norm perceived behaviour control. The study adopted a questionnaire among sample representative females with fertility complications in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries Egypt. In total, 138 questionnaires were gathered tested usi...

A study was undertaken to establish how visiting tourists to Samoa perceived free-roaming dogs (Canis familiaris) and their management, additionally some factors that influence their perceptions were assessed. Questionnaires were administered to 281 tourists across Samoa over 5 weeks. Free-roaming dogs were seen by 98.2% (n = 269/274) of respondents, with 64.9% (n = 137/211) reporting that thei...

Globalisation has given birth to medical tourism. Health and medical tourism are the fastest growing segments in not only developed nations but in developing countries too. India has become a hot destination, as the Indian medical standards match up to the highly prescribed international standards at a very low cost. However, it is an unmixed blessing; along with advantages, it has many uninten...