TY - BOOK AU - Wilks,Jeff AU - Page,Stephen TI - Managing tourist health and safety in the new millennium SN - 0080440002 (alk. paper) U1 - 338.4791 PY - 2003/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Pergamon KW - Travel KW - Health aspects KW - Tourism KW - Tourists KW - Health and hygiene KW - Health risk assessment KW - Safety measures KW - Risk management KW - Care KW - Management N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of figures - List of tables - List of Plates - Contributors - Dedication - Foreword Sir Frank Moore - Acknowledgments - Introduction - 1. Current status of tourist health and safety - Section 1: Medical conditions and injuries - 2. Travellers' health: an epidemiological overview - 3. Evaluating the nature, scope and extent of tourist accidents: the New Zealand experience - Section 2: adventure tourism - 4. Risk acceptance in adventure tourism- paradox and context - 5. Current status and future directions in the adventure tourism industry - 6. Managing tourist safety: the experience of the adventure tourism industry - Section 3: Advice and best practice - 7. Current issues in travel and tourism law - 8. Travel agents' health and safety advice - 9. Safety and security for destinations: WTO case studies - Section 4: Selected issues - 10. International tourists and transport safety - 11. Towards a framework for tourism disaster management - 12. Biting midges and tourism in Scotland - 13. Tourist safety and the Urban environment - Conclusions - 14. Risks, rights and responsibilities in tourist well-being: who should manage visitor well-being at the destination? - Author index - Subject index ER -