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Managing tourist health and safety in the new millennium / edited by Jeff Wilks, Stephen J. Page.

Contributor(s): Series: Advances in tourism research seriesPublication details: Amsterdam : Pergamon, c2003.Description: xiv, 247 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0080440002 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4791 MAN
Contents:
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.
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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.