Background: Tertiary students are at risk of acquiring infectious diseases during overseas travel as they visit low-income countries, have low perceptions of risk and are unlikely to access travel health advice. Some will visit friends and relatives abroad, a group identified as...

Background: International travel carries the risk of imported diseases, which are an increasingly significant public health problem. There is little guidance about which variables should be collected by surveillance systems for strategy-based surveillance. Methods: Surveillance forms for dengue, ...

In-depth interviews with 25 travel agents in the greater Auckland region of New Zealand were conducted in 2000 to investigate the effect of the widespread availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on their business. The results reveal that ICTs have changed the competitive...

Social media contains a wealth of nutrition information and proposes a cost-effective, highly engaging platform to deliver nutrition information to athletes. This study used an online questionnaire to determine whether New Zealand athletes are using social media as a source of nutrition information ...

The digital and technological transformation evidences the importance of the internet revolution in the changes that occur in tourism, which with the advancement of information and communication technologies have given prominence to the new digital marketing tools for its results in promotion,...

Background/aims: Over the last decade and following international trends, cases of mosquito-borne arboviral infections, notably dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika, have increased among travellers arriving in New Zealand, but no locally acquired cases have been identified. Imported cases are...

A survey of all 526 listed travel agents in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Wellington, Christchurch and Otago, New Zealand, assessed the type and nature of pre-travel health advice provided by travel agents to clients at the time of booking. Some 314 questionnaires were returned, comprising a...

This research study focused on online marketing and the use of social media by a sample of tourism operators from Dunedin, New Zealand. The aim was to identify the level of online marketing that tourism operators are currently implementing, and to inform improvements in relation to their design and ...

Sport organizations' digital spaces (e.g. organizational websites, fanzines, blogs, electronic repositories and social media) are, potentially, rich empirical terrain in which sport narratives may be (re)presented, mobilised and challenged, and content disseminated to wider audiences. Drawing on...