This paper aims to identify emerging professional roles within the museum context, related to the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The existing shortage of bibliographical references and gaps in previous studies available on this specific subject have suggested to...

An increasing number of Italians travel to tropical and subtropical destinations each year, a trend likely to continue. To protect travellers to these regions, travel clinics need to partner with the travel industry. Travel agents are one such potential partner, being both the professional group...

This book "International Travel and Health" presents current knowledge on travel health risks and preventive measures to be taken. The 2012 edition has been updated to reflect the new global epidemiological situation. New aspects of travel medicine, such as mass gatherings and visits of immigrants...

Despite the growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the tourism domain, the opportunities offered by the web to promote tourist destinations seem to be not yet fully exploited by destination marketing organizations. This study seeks to extend the eTourism...

This issue includes 12 papers presented at the conference focusing on travel medicine and migration. The topics discussed are: prevention of foodborne infectious diseases (traveller's diarrhoea, cholera, hepatitis A, typhoid) in travellers through food hygiene, chemoprophylaxis or immunization; a...

"Closed for renovation, open by vocation" that is the slogan with which the archaeological museum Antonino Salinas in Palermo began to revive its image about a year ago. Closed for four years for the restoration of the architectural complex that houses it, the seventeenth-century Olivella' s House...

This study was carried out in Rimini, Italy, to investigate the compliance of travellers with international travel guidelines, such as pre-travel vaccination, prophylactic measures and chemoprophylaxis against malaria. Subjects who consulted at the international travel services, health department,...

Travel health clinics, which aim to protect the health of international travellers, exist in almost all local health units in Italy. These clinics are the former International Vaccination Offices authorized by the Ministry of Health, where obligatory vaccinations (at first smallpox, later cholera...

Many social hiking groups use the web to engage participants around the proposed travel during the planning phase, and in sharing information once the hiking is concluded. In this context, it is interesting to analyse how tourism operators are using social media in the promotion of the social trek. ...