The 26th Annual International eTourism Conference (ENTER2019) features research and industry case studies on the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in travel and tourism. This issue consists of 24 research notes that were presented at the conference. The papers focus,...

Background: Travellers are at risk of acquiring infectious diseases during travel, with risks differing by destination, travel and traveller characteristics. A pre-travel health consultation may minimize this risk. However, uptake of pre-travel health advice remains low. We investigated pre-...

Background: General practitioners (GPs) may refer travellers to practice staff and to outside agencies to assist in the provision of travel health advice and preventive measures. In Australia, little is known about the referral patterns of travellers for travel health advice by GPs in the...

The diffusion of disrupting innovations has generated significant market changes, modifying the dominant logic and affecting the strategic positioning of companies in tourism. The aim of this special issue is (a) to provide a platform for the dissemination of findings from studies that combine...

Background: Pre-travel health assessments aim to promote risk reduction through preventive measures and safe behavior, including ensuring travelers are up-to-date with their immunizations. However, studies assessing pre-travel health-seeking practices from a variety of medical and non-medical...

Increasingly tourism businesses are attempting to interact and communicate with consumers using a variety of social media tools. However, many are struggling to continue to effectually and effectively engage with an interactive audience so willing to openly speak their minds. Adoption barriers...

Purpose - This paper aims to examine key parameters of scholarly context and geographic focus and provide an assessment of theoretical underpinnings of studies in the field of social media and visitor mobility. This review also summarised the characteristics of social media data, including how data ...

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of travel health advice and written documentation reported to be given by general practitioners to travellers from Australia. Design and setting: A postal questionnaire was sent to general practitioners (GPs). Participants: 433 GPs were randomly selected...

Background: Knowledge about the travel-associated risks of hepatitis A and B, and the extent of pre-travel health -advice being sought may vary between countries. Methods: An online survey was undertaken to assess the awareness, advice-seeking behaviour, rates of vaccination against hepatitis A...

A series of surveys were conducted in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2002 in Australia to examine pre-travel health advice given to travellers. Results of the 2002 survey showed that a minority of people (31%) reported seeing a doctor or travel clinic for pre-travel health advice. Over the series...