We studied food and water-borne diseases (FWDs), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), vector-borne diseases (VBDs) and diseases vaccinated against in the Swedish childhood vaccination programme among Swedish international travellers, in order to identify countries associated with a high number of...

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...

Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing industries worldwide. It helps to support the economic growth and development of many countries, Thailand included. A key engine of the growth of tourism has been the Internet, especially over recent years. One of the objectives of the Second ICT...

While past research only attempted to investigate the impact of consumer review website characteristics on the hotel reservation behavior, this study incorporated both characteristics of hotel brand website and consumer review website into consideration. Impacts of the two types of websites on...

Background: Approximately the 8% of travelers requires medical care, with the diagnosis of a vaccine-preventable disease. The aim of our study was to analyze the socio-demographic, health and travel characteristics of the Italian international travelers. Methods: We conducted a cross sectional...

Background: Southeast Asia and East Asia are regarded as highly endemic regions for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and include many popular destinations for Australian travellers. The objectives of this survey were to evaluate the extent of pre-travel health advice, the prevalence of behaviours with HBV ...

Background: The Travel Medicine Clinic in Umeå is one of Sweden's largest public providers of vaccination and counselling prior to international travel. During the study period it was the only travel medicine clinic in Umeå. This study describes the demography of the visitors to the clinic and...

Currently, information technology plays an important role in the tourism industry. Tourists like to use social media more widely for their travel planning, which affects the high competition between entrepreneurs while facing the challenge of improving the quality of data services provided through ...

This case report describes the clinical course and management of a 44-year-old man born in France living in Mayotte for 7 years travelled to France and Switzerland, from 6 March 6 to 14 March, 2020. A flu-like syndrome started on 11 March in Paris, and on Day 4 the nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV2 PCR and...

Longitudinal data examining travel-associated illness patterns are lacking. To address this need and determine trends and clusters in travel-related illness, we examined data for 2000-2010, prospectively collected for 42,223 ill travelers by 18 GeoSentinel sites. The most common destinations from...