A correct social media strategy is essential for travel agencies working in today's global market to reach customers. The travel industry is a service-oriented industry, and travel agencies can easily reach their customers on social media by transforming their marketing strategies at no extra costs. There are so many options that a travel agency can use to make itself more visible on social med...

Voice communication over internet not be possible without a reliable data network, this was first available when distributed network topologies were used in conjunction with data packets. Early network used single centre node network in which a single workstation (Server) is responsible for the communication. This posed problems as if there was a fault with the centre node, (workstation) nothin...

Ischaemic stroke is responsible for up to 80% of stroke cases. Prevention of the reoccurrence of ischaemic attack or stroke for patients who survived the first symptoms is the major treatment target. Accurate diagnosis of the emboli source for a specific infarction lesion is very important for a better treatment for the patient. However, due to the complex blood flow patterns in the cerebral ar...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism is a global health practice where patients travel abroad to receive health care. Voluntourism is a practice where physicians travel abroad to deliver health care. Both of these practices often entail travel from high income to low and middle income countries and both have been associated with possible negative impacts. In this paper, we explore the social responsibili...

In this paper we use the results of a recent on-site recreation survey to know whether it matters to use perceived rather than calculated travel costs. The calculated travel costs (time and money) are derived from detailed GIS computations. The perceived travel times and costs are taken directly from the survey responses. We first find that there is a high non-response rate for the perceived co...

Introduction: Among the United Arab Emirates (UAE) population more and more people now consider travelling abroad. This is potentially problematic because travelling enhances exposure between hosts and pathogens and so people that travel are putting their health at risk. This concern makes it necessary that public education is provided to inform people of the risks of travellin...

Travel medicine practice in the United States has not been extensively studied. This study included 1078 consecutive patients who presented to a university-based travel medicine clinic from 1990 through 1994. Analyses of patient demographics, clinic attendance, itineraries, and vaccinations were conducted. Mean patient age (+/- SD) was 37.4 +/- 16.2 years; 626 (58.1%) of the patients were male....

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