Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) can be applied to inform and incentivize travellers to help them make cognizant choices concerning their trip routes and transport modality use for their daily travel whilst achieving more sustainable societal and transport authority goals. However, in practice, it is challenging for an ITS to enable incentive generation that is context-driven and perso...

With the aim to identify at-risk individuals among a cohort of international travellers, 3442 individuals who sought advice at Marseille travel health centre in 2009 were prospectively included. Demographics, travel characteristics, chronic medical conditions, vaccinations and antimalarial chemoprophylaxis were documented. Chronic medical conditions were reported by 11% of individuals, includin...

This article presents the results of a study exploring travellers’ preferences for middle-distance travel using Q-methodology. Respondents rank-ordered 42 opinion statements regarding travel choice and motivations for travel in general and for car and public transport as alternative travel modes. By-person factor analysis revealed four distinct preference segments for middle-distance travel: (1...

BACKGROUND The epidemiology of travel-associated campylobacteriosis is still largely unclear, and various known risk factors could only explain limited proportions of the recorded cases. METHODS Using data from 28,704 notifications of travel-associated campylobacteriosis in Sweden 1997 to 2003 and travel patterns of 16,255 Swedish residents with overnight travel abroad in the same years, we a...

abstract strongyloidiasis is caused by infestation with strongyloides stercoralis, a free living tropical and semitropical soil helminth that has a larval form that penetrates intact skin. clinical manifestations may be varied from an asymptomatic infection in immunocompetent hosts to a diffuse and fatal form in immunocompromised hosts. we report a 56-year-old man from dezful (south-west of ira...

sand fly fever (sf) is an arthropod-borne viral disease, also known as “phlebotomus fever”, ‘’mosquito fever’’, three-day fever or “papatacci fever”. it is transmitted by phlebotomus papatasi , starts with acute onset of high fever, and lasts for three days. we present first cases in a different district of turkey with the clinical findings of fever, myalgia-arthralgia, headache, gastrointestin...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of the Australian border entry screening program to detect arriving travellers with symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). DESIGN AND SETTING Descriptive study of outcomes of screening at Australian airports and seaports between 5 April 2003 and 16 June 2003. To determine the number of international travellers who were symptomatic on arriva...

The health status of the Irish Traveller ethnic minority is low compared to the general population in Ireland in terms of infant mortality rates and life expectancies. Respiratory disease is an area of health disparity manifested as excess mortalities in Traveller males and females. In this study, we examined the available data with regard to tuberculosis (TB) notifications in Ireland from 2002...

BACKGROUND In recent years, requests for rabies immunoglobulin have increased at Amsterdam's Academic Medical Center's travel clinic. Travellers who received rabies pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) before travel departure have immunological memory that can quickly be activated by timely booster vaccinations after possible exposure to rabies. PrEP alleviates the need for costly and scarcely avail...

This paper examines the benefits, challenges and opportunities of Halal gastronomy tourism in tourist countries. The outcomes are intended to ensure aspect effectiveness promoting destination benefiting national economy. Secondary approaches such as journals, websites, books have been used for this research gather data. Reviewing comparing articles on a certain country determine at selected des...