How Travel Earns Us Bragging Rights: A Qualitative Inquiry and Conceptualization of Travel Bragging Rights

Bragging rights and destination marketing: a tourism bragging rights model

In a study seeking to understand destination choice, focus group participants consisting of travellers, mentioned the importance of ‘bragging rights’. Additionally, tourism marketers when interviewed about destination choice also referred to bragging rights. An online search of ‘travel’, ‘tourism’ and ‘bragging rights’ revealed thousands of links. Despite this, bragging rights has received limi...

BRAGging about Mechanisms of Long-Term Depression

The mechanisms of long-term depression (LTD) underlie various aspects of normal brain function. Therefore, it is important to understand the signaling that underpins LTD. The study by Scholz et al. in this issue of Neuron describes how BRAG2, mGluRs, and AMPARs come together to produce LTD through AMPAR internalization.

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

Community development as the pursuit of human rights: The new direction of travel?

The activities of human rights defenders concern all categories of human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political, and social. Inspired and guided by human rights standards, human rights defenders act against the serious problems that affect the life of people throughout the world, such as hunger and poverty, intolerance and discrimination, abuse of power and corruption, insecurity, conflic...

Travel-associated disease among US residents visiting US GeoSentinel clinics after return from international travel.

BACKGROUND US residents make 60 million international trips annually. Family practice providers need to be aware of travel-associated diseases affecting this growing mobile population. OBJECTIVE To describe demographics, travel characteristics and clinical diagnoses of US residents who present ill after international travel. METHODS Descriptive analysis of travel-associated morbidity and mo...