OBJECTIVES Medical tourism involves patients' intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country. Empirical evidence regarding health and safety risks facing medical tourists is limited. Consideration of this issue is dominated by speculation and lacks meaningful input from people with specific expertise in patient health and safety. We consulted with patient health and safe...

BACKGROUND Rio de Janeiro in Brazil will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. About 400,000 non-immune foreign tourists are expected to attend the games. As Brazil is the country with the highest number of dengue cases worldwide, concern about the risk of dengue for travelers is justified. METHODS A mathematical model to calculate the risk of developing dengue for foreign tourists attending...

Th e purpose of this study focus es on the extent to which electronic word-ofmouth (eWOM) and the image of Macanese gastronomy tourism infl uences tourists' intentions, based on samples of those who use the Internet, to search for information about Macanese gastronomy. Th is study was conducted from April to June 2013. A quantitative research method was adopted and online questionnaires were di...

On New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest aircraft, a Qantas Airbus A380 will set off for a 9,000 kilometre round trip over the Antarctic for tourists to enjoy the spectacular scenery. These tourists will leave a very large carbon footprint, even without landing on the continent, but there is additional, increasing concern about the growing pressure from cruise ships and other tourists wish...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism is the term that describes patients' international travel with the intention of seeking medical treatment. Some medical tourists go abroad for orthopaedic surgeries, including hip and knee resurfacing and replacement. In this article we examine the findings of interviews with Canadian medical tourists who went abroad for such surgeries to determine what is distinctive...

Trip planning is both challenging and tedious for tourists due to their unique interest preferences and various trip constraints. Despite the availability of online resources for tour planning and services provided by tour agencies, there are various challenges such as: (i) selecting POIs that are personalized to the unique interests of individual travellers; (ii) constructing these POIs as an ...

A common justification for developing wildlife tourism attractions is that they help to secure long-term conservation of wildlife and wildlife habitats. Managers and guides often highlight their role in protecting wildlife and its habitat, yet little is known about the interests, needs and preferences of the tourists who participate in such activities – how aware are they of conservation issues...

Buleleng Regency has many unique cultures and beauty of natural sceneries which are always the charm and attraction for tourists. It requires the effort to increase the number of visits of the tourists by providing the information of tour object in accordance with the tourists’ interest and also easily for accessible. This study aimed at designing a mobile-based CBR system using Dempster-Shafer...

Sri Lanka being a popular tourist destination entertains a large number of tourists each year. Tourists are issued a printed guide booklet to find out interesting places during the visit. Due to the lack of up to date information and navigation support, tourists are not able to visit all the attractions during a visit. Our researched was based on discovering a solution to improve this situation...