Conflicting claims are made about the extent to which Travellers in Britain remain outsiders urban society (McGarry 2017; Sibley 1981). This paper sheds light on this question by addressing a neglected aspect of Traveller mobility, namely day-to-day traversing spaces beyond their (typically segregated) trailer sites. Focusing public transport, it draws eighteen months ethnographic research with...

Over the last decade there has been a marked increase in case of drug-resistant and severe malaria in Canadian travellers. We report 7 deaths due to falciparum malaria that occurred in Canada or in Canadian travellers. Risks for malaria infection include inappropriate recommendations for malaria prevention by health care providers and lack of knowledge about or adherence to appropriate recommen...

User-Generated Content (UGC) on the World Wide Web has empowered travellers, enabling them to exchange opinions or experiences with others, and consequently, influencing their travel decisions. Travellers are able to make comments in a large variety of forms such as photos, videos, podcasts, ratings, reviews, articles and blogs. When people use the Internet to obtain travel information, they do...

The Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) provides the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) with ongoing and timely medical, scientific, and public health advice relating to tropical infectious disease and health risks associated with international travel. PHAC acknowledges that the advice and recommendations set out in this statement are based upon the best current avai...

Countries with no autochthonous measles run the risk of the virus being imported by travellers and transmitted to unprotected citizens. In April 2012, two travellers from Finland and one from Estonia were diagnosed with measles after returning from Phuket, Thailand. They were contagious on their return flights and subsequently exposed several individuals, prompting extensive infection control m...

This paper describes a content-based analysis of Web-based travellers’ social media Websites. The proposed methodology is based on three levels of computer-mediated analysis, namely the lexical analysis, statistical analysis and semantic analysis. It is found that the use of systematic analysis of naturally occurring discussions in social media sites can lead to much stronger information about ...

PURPOSE We report 18 cases of confirmed Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in travellers returning to the Netherlands from Surinam (South America, bordering northern Brazil) and the Dominican Republic. METHODS In a multi-centre study, we collected epidemiological, virological and clinical characteristics, as well as data on travel history, underlying illness and laboratory results of the 18 imported...

A pilot mobile application was developed using an online tool. The application offers up-to-date information to travellers using RSS news feeds from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, a Google Maps module was added in the application, which presents (in a map “pin” form) the current travel health notices that are currently in e...