Travelling to remote regions at high altitude in less developed countries is fast growing in popularity amongst adventure tourists. In the course of this travel tourists are exposed to many endemic diseases of the region and the potentially deadly symptoms of mountain sickness.This work examines travel health experience among tourists in high altitude destinations through case studies of Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal and Tibet, China. Nine out of ten suffer some forms of health ailments, of which the most common are mountain sickness symptoms, diarrhoea, respiratory symptoms and musculoskeletal pain. Travel motivation, pre-travel preparation and tourist profiles do influence travel health experience in the high altitude environment. The author explains that the manifold and close interconnections displayed in the health travel experience model are strongly indicative of the desirability of a holistic approach to both health tourism research and health management in high altitude destinations. The analysis incorporates the two important disciplines of tourism and medicine, and should be useful to tourism managers, medical personnel, researchers,students and academicians.
Produktkennzeichnungen
ISBN-10
3639008855
ISBN-13
9783639008852
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70377023
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
272 Seiten
Verlag
Vdm Verlag
Publikationsname
Travel Health Experience in High Altitude Destination
Autor
Ghazali Musa
Format
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Inhaltsbeschreibung
Paperback
Item Length
22cm
Item Height
1cm
Item Width
15cm
Item Weight
421g
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