RESULTS : Significant differences existed in availing of delivery care services among various segments of the population. Women residing in rural areas were less likely than urban women to use the health care services (P<0.001). Both economic and educational status of women were positively associated with use of medical facilities (P<0.001). Christian and Sikh women utilized the reproductive he...

The Sahara is the greatest of the world's waste lands which is being opened up as a major tourist attraction, and it is now possible to travel overland from the Mediterranean to the Bight of Benin by public transport during a four week vacation.' Although many publications are available to advise the prospective traveller to the tropics in general, little information is available on medical car...

Religion influences people and their perceptions. This paper examines Muslim hosts' perception of Western mass tourism using the tourist island Gili Trawangan in Indonesia. The study's primary purpose is to show how beliefs practices Islamic religion local community influence impacts tourism. A quantitative method was employed among locals. results a certain tolerance acceptance by community, c...

This paper proposes a tourist route model that is based on the integration of GIS spatial analysis functions and a kind of heuristic search algorithm based on local optimisation. A vector-based model is used to represent tourists’ personal interests and the available tourist resources. Based on these two representations, the system can build a user model that indicates the attractions values of...

Tourism has long been considered as a 'clean industry' with almost no negative effects on the environment. This study demonstrated, in two different coastal systems (Mediterranean and Baltic), that tourism related activities are particularly affecting the sandy beach meio- and nematofauna in the upper beach zone, the specific ecotone in which many meiofauna species from both the marine and the ...

In our study, we explore the extension analysis of ecological engineering management of the tourist area. And the primary goal in ecological engineering management is to realize the sustainable development of the tourist area. We set targets for the sustainable development of the tourist area on the basis of the analysis on the current situation. And then we build up target and condition matter...

This netnographic study explores first-person stories from online personal travel reports to gain an understanding of tourist experiences. This study uses these stories in order to model tourist spatiotemporal movement at the destination within the context of their tourist-activated networks. The stories provide information about the behavior of tourists on the move with respect to their proble...

Many mature and popular tourist destinations are attracting large volumes of tourist flows. Especially during peak periods this may lead to congestion phenomena in different areas of tourist cities. This paper presents the results of a tourist survey carried out in the city centre of Amsterdam, during the high tourist season (2006), when congestion phenomena are clearly present. In addition to ...

Travelers returning to their country of origin to visit friends and relatives (VFRs) have increased risk of travel-related health problems. We examined GeoSentinel data to compare travel characteristics and illnesses acquired by 3 groups of travelers to low-income countries: VFRs who had originally been immigrants (immigrant VFRs), VFRs who had not originally been immigrants (traveler VFRs), an...

OBJECTIVE Physical inactivity surveillance informs policy and treatment options toward meeting the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal of a 10% reduction in its prevalence by 2025. We currently do not know the aggregate prevalence for Muslim-majority countries, many of which have extremely high rates of comorbidities associated with physical inactivity. METHOD Based on data for 163, 556 pe...