1665Health Information Given by Travel Agencies in Pereira, Colombia

نویسندگان

  • Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
  • Harold Escudero-Quintero
  • Sebastián Hurtado-Rodríguez
  • Andrea Montoya-Restrepo
  • Leydi Andrea Morales-Castañeda
  • Carolina Muñoz-Gómez
چکیده

tp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.20 77-8939/a 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rig Travel in Latin America, a region with many destinations that pose health specific health risks for travelers, particularly tropical diseases, is increasing. Prevention of such travel-related illness, of necessity, includes appropriate accurate information provided by travel agents [1,2]. These are national and international tourism promoters, being important sources of information for travelers and well positioned to improve the understanding of related health risks [2]. Poorly informed travel agents, by contrast, will be unable to provide reliable health related information. Very few studies have been published assessing the performance of travel agents in Europe and none in other parts of the

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تاریخ انتشار 2014