and more elaborate history of the service; as it is, the article runs to only 47 pages, and is very largely taken up by quotations from old books of Travels in India. However, we welcome the article as an instalment of the History of the Service, and congratulate the veteran on his devotion to his old service and on the aid he has given in keeping alive its history and traditions. We are firmly...

Travel journals from different historical periods contain valuable insights that could be analyzed from different aspects and through that we can understand other people’s points of view about us. Description of different cities in travel literature represents French travelers’ views about these cities besides informing us about the quality and quantity of those cities at the times. “Represen...

The Internet contains a very high number of tourism sites. Who are the users of these sites and do they find the information useful? This paper address these questions based on national surveys in Norway among users of travel and tourism web sites. Key findings are; a majority of the Internet-population (60 percent) is using the web for travel search or planning purposes, online booking is not ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the level of concern and sources of information of hostelers concerning personal safety and terrorism. This study was designed to investigate these in the Australian context. METHODS In 2006, self-administered questionnaires were distributed to hostelers attending a travelers' information evening in Brisbane. RESULTS Forty questionnaires (60.8%) were returne...

The global interprofessional education (IPE) community is expanding. However too frequently native English speakers like myself confine ourselves to literature in English and have little awareness of what has been going on for some time in countries under-represented in the English language journals. This deficiency has been highlighted for me not only by the richness of the papers in this spec...