Irresponsible travel has the potential to harm both the traveler and the host destination. The subject of responsible travel is a major focus of the International Society of Travel Medicine, whose Responsible Travel special interest group has been very active in providing leadership for travel medicine practitioners in relation to the protection of local travel destination communities. Healthca...

First to be hit by the pandemic and last recover, travel tourism industry is considered one of most severely affected sectors. The paper tries highlight vulnerabilities GDP, employment related activities sector looking at it through a macro perspective using data from World Bank, International Labour Organization, United Nations Trade Organization and, Travel Tourism Council, in addition, subst...

The business travel industry is characterised by triadic relationships that are currently undergoing dramatic changes. In a business travel distribution context, the triad consists of the company buying business travel services, an intermediary, and the service supplier. Traditionally, airlines have used business travel agencies as an intermediary and distribution channel for selling the flight...

Introduction: Travel agencies may be consulted by intending travelers seeking pre-travel health advice. Travel agents should be equipped to deal with such queries and have access to a source of high quality travel health advice. This study aimed to establish the level of knowledge of travel health risks among Irish travel agencies. Methods: A web-based su...

Executive Summary For an industry hampered by the weak global economy, 2012 was a good one for the global travel and hospitality (T&H) industry, as a recordbreaking one billion tourists traveled outside their home countries. Domestically, the U.S. T&H industry is experiencing a genuine revival. Real spending on tourism has increased in the past two years, and U.S. citizens are expected to trave...

Executive Summary For an industry hampered by the weak global economy, 2012 was a good one for the global travel and hospitality (T&H) industry, as a recordbreaking one billion tourists traveled outside their home countries. Domestically, the U.S. T&H industry is experiencing a genuine revival. Real spending on tourism has increased in the past two years, and U.S. citizens are expected to trave...

Large, vertically integrated outgoing tour operators dominate the foreign holidays segment of the British and German travel and tourism industry. This industrial structure has emerged and has been sustained by a number of factors, of which the adoption and diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is one of the most significant. As a response, some small outgoing tour o...