BACKGROUND This year, Brazil will host about 600,000 foreign visitors during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The concern of possible dengue transmission during this event has been raised given the high transmission rates reported in the past by this country. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We used dengue incidence rates reported by each host city during previous years (2001-2013) to estimate the risk...

health tourism is a form of travel in addition to recreation, leisure, comfort, health and medical care as well. this paper aims to assess the state of health tourism in the city of mashhad, from the perspective of foreign tourists, identify weaknesses in health tourism and health tourism adsorption process and provide medical services to foreign patients in mashhad compilation.research methods...

Tourism data are sparse, and commonly cannot distinguish between different forms of tourism. However, according to one 1982 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey, 29 million U.S. citizens took some 310 million trips in 1980 based on nonconsumptive enjoyment of nature and wildlife. At least 1 million of these tourists traveled to foreign lands primarily to experience the ecologies of remote destinations...

We use a model of domestic and international tourist numbers and flows to estimate the impact of the recent and proposed changes in the Air Passenger Duty (APD) of the United Kingdom. We look at four different scenarios (abolishing the APD, keeping the 2001 APD level, the 2007 APD and the Conservative Party’s ‘‘Green Miles’’ proposal) using base, high and very high elasticity levels as well as ...

B asically, many developed and developing countries need to expand tourism activities for accessing to the goals of national economic development and attracting foreign funds, therefore evaluating the efficiency of tourism industry can have significant help in recognizing the existed tourism potentials. The Chabahar zone in spite of numerous potential abilities in attracting domestic...

study was to identify factors, components and barriers to tourism development in the city as a tourist with the approach and methods of survey. the population of the study, all domestic and foreign tourists three months of the year 88 125 512 and 105 112 people respectively are included. according to cochran formula, 118 and 119 of the iranian tourists and foreign tourists as the sample size an...