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Smahel, Thomas. "Airport Features Most Likely to Affect International Traveler Satisfaction." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2626, no. 1 (January 2017): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2626-05.
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The number of international travelers traveling through U.S. airports is increasing because of the proliferation of longer-range aircraft, expanding global alliances, and a growing middle class from developing nations. Each international airport has a unique design, and many international travelers experience difficulty finding their way in unfamiliar airports. The wayfinding task is made more difficult when combined with other factors such as traveler anxiety, jet lag, and unfamiliarity with the local language and culture. To understand better the challenges faced by international travelers, a literature review, a human factors task analysis, and an international traveler intercept survey were carried out to determine traveler needs, expectations, and key factors that affect traveler satisfaction with an airport. Four traveler surveys were developed and administered to different traveler groups. Surveys were administered at the eight U.S. gateway airports with the most international travelers. Some key findings were as follows: ( a) all traveler groups identified easy wayfinding as being the most important airport feature, with travelers transferring between two flights rating it highest; ( b) in comparison to other traveler groups, arriving travelers rated short walking distance as being much more important than other features; ( c) travelers making a connection between two international flights did not expect that they would need to collect and recheck their bags while in transit; ( d) travelers making a connection between two international flights had the lowest overall satisfaction as compared with the other traveler groups; and ( e) only one-third of travelers making a connection between two international flights had a positive experience with the walking distance between flights.
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YOUNG UM, MEE, ERIC RICE, HARMONY RHOADES, HAILEY WINETROBE, and NATALIE BRACKEN. "Influence of “traveling” youth and substance use behaviors in the social networks of homeless youth." Network Science 4, no. 1 (January 25, 2016): 28–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nws.2015.32.
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AbstractTraveling homeless youth (i.e., youth who migrate from city to city, after a short period of time) exhibit elevated levels of risky substance use behaviors compared to non-traveling youth. Using sociometric data, we examined the characteristics of homeless youth who are connected to at least one traveler and how at least one connection to travelers was associated with substance use of travelers and non-travelers. Data were collected from 386 homeless youth at two drop-in centers in Los Angeles, CA. Results indicated that, comparing to what would be expected by chance, youth who reported at least one connection to travelers were more likely to use substances, more travelers reported at least one tie to another traveler, and more substance-using travelers reported at least one tie to other substance-using travelers. Multivariate analyses revealed that binge drinking and marijuana use were associated with homeless youth reporting connections to at least one substance-using traveler. Injection drug use was associated with reporting at least one connection to an injection drug user, regardless of traveler status, once we controlled for demographic characteristics and traveler status. We suggest the need for substance-using traveler-specific services using brief one-on-one interventions to prevent further engagement in risky substance use.
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Brown, Anne E., Brian D. Taylor, and Martin Wachs. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf? Media Messaging and Traveler Responses to “Carmageddon” in Los Angeles." Public Works Management & Policy 22, no. 3 (April 21, 2016): 275–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1087724x16643544.
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One of the most heavily traveled freeways in the United States closed for construction over weekends in 2011 and 2012. Some public officials publicized the closures by appealing to civic pride whereas others threatened nightmarish delays they dubbed “Carmageddon.” In 2011, contrary to many media predictions, traffic flowed freely at volumes far below normal levels. Our analysis finds that travelers did not switch routes, modes, or trip timing, but instead forewent thousands of trips. Travel behavior changes were far more modest and mixed during the second closure in 2012. Although the lack of traffic problems surprised many public officials, we find traveler responses to both events congruent with past research. Traveler responses to the first event were more dramatic but short-lived, while more modest but durable responses to the second event suggest that travelers learned from, and were perhaps jaded by, the histrionics surrounding the first closure.
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Morosan, Cristian. "Voluntary Steps toward Air Travel Security." Journal of Travel Research 51, no. 4 (November 3, 2011): 436–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287511418368.
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Using a modified version of the Technology Acceptance Model, this study examines travelers’ voluntary adoption of registered traveler biometric systems. Such systems have important consequences for general air travel security, while improving the experiences of registered travelers. This study shows that air travelers’ intentions to use registered traveler biometric systems are influenced by their attitudes toward these systems, which in turn are strongly affected by their perceptions of usefulness, privacy, and to a lesser extent, by ease of use. This study also establishes the critical roles of perceived security and innovativeness toward information technology as indirect antecedents of travelers’ intentions to use registered traveler biometric systems.
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Sandal, Candace. "By the Way . . . the Last-Minute International Traveler." Workplace Health & Safety 67, no. 2 (November 15, 2018): 53–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2165079918806535.
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Evidence has consistently revealed international travelers are increasing in numbers every year as more folks travel for business, pleasure, humanitarian reasons, and medical tourism. Clinicians who consistently counsel travelers are well acquainted with the last-minute traveler who would benefit from a travel health assessment, vaccine administration, and health and safety information to manage travel-related issues while en route and upon arrival. Instruction in travel emergencies and packing tips, with advice to be able to address common travel issues associated health matters, are important strategies for the traveler to understand and better navigate his or her journey. To also serve the traveler are two excellent mobile apps from the Centers for Disease Control, free to the traveler, that are designed to contain travel and vaccine documents and to provide guidance in choosing foods and beverages while abroad. The occupational health nurse’s role is to support and reassure the traveler. Even at the last minute, travel health risks can be significantly reduced by the traveler obtaining vaccines and observing healthy practices.
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Ya'cob, Siti Aishah, and Huong Kui Sieng. "The Features of Online Tourism Information towards Young Traveler Satisfaction: A Case of Kuching the City of Unity." Journal of Public Administration and Governance 10, no. 4 (December 3, 2020): 250. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v10i4.17824.
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Nowadays, online information serves many functions. Despite solely for shopping purposes, the online platform has tremendously served the worldwide community for information search related to travelling. Hence, the features of online information are critically important to be investigated, in understanding the factors that lead to traveler satisfaction. This study investigates the features of online tourism information that lead to satisfaction of the domestic travelers from Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah to Kuching city of Sarawak Borneo. This study proposes two factors, namely credibility of information and segmentation of information. There was a total of 247 sets of questionnaires completed by domestic travelers who visited Kuching city in the year 2015. It is evident that both credibility and segmentation of online tourism information have significant and positive relationships towards traveler satisfaction. In short, the findings of this study offer a clearer view on the credibility and segmentation of online tourism information from domestic traveler’s viewpoint.
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Sperry, Benjamin R., Emily Siler, and Tristan Mull. "Application of the “Foot-in-the-Door” Compliance Technique for Traveler Intercept Surveys." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 42 (April 20, 2018): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118758337.
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Traveler intercept surveys are used to obtain essential data for transportation planning purposes in a variety of contexts and situations. This paper describes an application of the foot-in-the-door (FITD) compliance technique for traveler intercept surveys as a way to increase participation and improve the overall experience for both the traveler and the organization conducting the survey. Outcomes related to survey participation and response characteristics for three such surveys are presented. The two-stage FITD method described in this paper was successful at collecting a small amount of data from a majority of travelers at the locations being studied while minimizing the inconvenience to the traveler. A follow-up survey conducted via the Internet had a response rate that varied between the different case studies and also among different groups of travelers. Approximately one-third of follow-up survey responses were provided on the same day as the initial interaction between the traveler and the researcher, whereas one-quarter of respondents utilized a mobile device to complete the follow-up survey. The results of these case studies are informative for the development of traveler intercept surveys. Transportation planners are encouraged to consider the FITD technique described in this paper when developing traveler intercept surveys within their jurisdictions.
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Chi, Maomao, Junjing Wang, Xin (Robert) Luo, and Han Li. "Why travelers switch to the sharing accommodation platforms? A push-pull-mooring framework." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 33, no. 12 (October 3, 2021): 4286–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-02-2021-0253.
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Purpose Drawing on and extending the push-pull-mooring (PPM) framework, this paper aims to empirically explore the influencing mechanism of traveler switching intention from the hotel reservation platforms to the sharing accommodation platforms (SAPs). Design/methodology/approach This study adopts structural equation modeling to analyze the 543 responses collected among hotel reservation platforms and SAPs travelers. Findings The results support the positive effect of both push factors (e.g. dissatisfaction with product, service and information quality of hotels on the hotel reservation platform) and pull factors (e.g. price value, authenticity, interaction, home benefits and novelty of SAPs) on traveler switching intention. Except for the negative effect of switching cost, other mooring factors including prior switching experience and social influence positively affect traveler switching intention. The authors also found the switching cost negatively and prior switching experience positively moderated the push effects on traveler switching intention, while the social influence positively moderated the pull effects on traveler switching intention. Research limitations/implications Recommendations of future SAP participation research to consider the competing platforms, the unique experiences of SAPs and mooring factors. Examining the factors of different sources is also useful for practitioners to better understand travelers’ demands and to improve the overall welfare of travelers. Originality/value This paper embraces an extended PPM framework to explore traveler switching intention in online travel platforms. Moreover, this paper provides unique insights into the switching behavior from the hotel reservation platforms to the SAPs.
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Chan, Grace Suk Ha, Anna Chun-Hsuan Hsiao, and Irini Lai Fun Tang. "Word of Mouth Communication Influence of Online Hotel Room Reservation Confirmation: Case Study of Individual Travelers in Hong Kong." International Journal of Marketing Studies 9, no. 3 (May 29, 2017): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v9n3p76.
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Hong Kong residents tend to spend their holidays by traveling overseas; hence, they reserve hotels online. Moreover, low-cost carriers have become popular and common, thereby resulting in an increase in the number of individual travelers. Accordingly, the online hotel industry can no longer ignore the potential segment of individual travelers. In addition, word of mouth (WOM) is significant in the decision-making process because of the development of Web 2.0. and Travel 3.0. Furthermore, previous studies were analyzed and only a few focus on the individual traveler perspectives on purchasing hotel reservations online. However, individual travelers have different culture and values compared with the public; the former has its own lifestyle, consumer behavior, and ego. Therefore, the investigation of individual travelers when purchasing hotel reservations online is a valuable research topic. Under all situations, WOM has become one of the crucial factors upon which individual travelers base their travel planning and decision. This study used the interpretivist approach to investigate the respondents’ experiences and views for exploring and understanding individual traveler’s perception. The current study adopted qualitative research toward the effects of WOM communication on purchasing hotel reservations online. To investigate the topic, in-depth interviews were conducted on 15 respondents who are individual travelers and travel alone. The interviews followed a semi-structured format using open-ended questions. Descriptive research was designed to gather the findings. In addition, this study provided the effects of WOM communication on purchasing hotel reservations online from the perspective of an individual traveler. New findings, effects of WOM from an individual traveler’s perspective, and recommendations are provided, thereby providing significant guidance to industrial practitioners to improve and formulate marketing strategies.
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Taheri, Babak, Hossein Olya, Faizan Ali, and Martin Joseph Gannon. "Understanding the Influence of Airport Servicescape on Traveler Dissatisfaction and Misbehavior." Journal of Travel Research 59, no. 6 (October 21, 2019): 1008–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287519877257.
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Underpinned by complexity theory, this study investigates whether the influence of social and physical servicescape on international travelers’ dissatisfaction and misbehavior differs between two characteristically different international airports in Iran. Partial least squares (PLS) and multi-group analysis (MGA) were employed to test the conceptual model. The results revealed significant differences between the effects of physical servicescape on travelers’ dissatisfaction and misbehavior across both airports. However, the results did not support any differences between the effects of social servicescape on travelers’ dissatisfaction and misbehavior between both airports. Additionally, using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), this study identified multiple configurations of physical and social servicescape dimensions leading to traveler dissatisfaction and misbehavior. In doing so, the results highlighted the conditions leading to low traveler dissatisfaction and misbehavior scores, confirming the applicability of complexity theory in explaining international traveler behavior in airports, providing implications and directions for future research in the process.
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Ryder, Andrew Richard. "Big bang localism and gypsies and travelers." Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 2, no. 2 (December 12, 2011): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2011.02.02.
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The paper explores how the UK planning system has impacted on Gypsies and Travelers and is partly based upon evidence and conclusions made by the Panel Review of Coalition Government Policy on Gypsies and Travellers which was particularly interested in Coalition Government localist policy. There are differing interpretations of what ’localism’ is but one adherent of localism has described the brand as espoused by a section of Conservatives as ’big bang localism’ (Jenkins, 2004). A dogma of radical decentralisation which some would argue has permeated the Coalition Government. As is evidenced in the paper the Coalition’s localist policies could have a profound effect on Gypsy and Traveler site provision and race relations. However, localism is not a new phenomena it is a policy which has been applied to Gypsy and Traveler site provision in the past and has alternated with more centralised measures which could be described as ’statist’.
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Zhang, Guan, Zhu, and Zhu. "Analysis of Travel Mode Choice Behavior Considering the Indifference Threshold." Sustainability 11, no. 19 (October 4, 2019): 5495. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11195495.
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An effective way to optimize traffic structures is by changing travel costs, thereby moving travelers from private transportation to public transportation. However, according to the existing studies, the traveler will not transfer from one mode to another unless the change in travel utility is greater than the indifference threshold. Therefore, the “indifference threshold” is one of the most important factors influencing a traveler’s choice of behavior. This study defines the “indifference threshold” as the traveler’s sensitivity to changes in travel utilities. In the framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB), a structural equation model (SEM) considering the indifference threshold is established to analyze a traveler’s mode choice behavior. The analysis results showed that a travelers’ sensitivity to changes in travel utilities has the greatest impact on mode-choice behavior intentions and mode choice behavior. Perceptual behavior control has the strongest influence on travel choice behavior. In addition, in order to further explore the heterogeneity of a traveler’s behavior, the travelers were subdivided into four types, by establishing a latent class model (LCM) considering the indifference threshold. Finally, different traffic management suggestions are proposed for different types of travelers.
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Ruikar, Amey Vinayak, and Viswanathan V. "BUS LOCATION AND ROUTE SYSTEM USING INTERNET OF THINGS." Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 10, no. 13 (April 1, 2017): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.22159/ajpcr.2017.v10s1.19590.
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The fundamental point of undertaking is to plan a remote correspondence based transport position checking framework which is much helpful in operation. It is imperative to diminish traveler holding up time at transport stop, when clean time dining areas are obscure to traveler or traveler new in the city. To conquer the issue of travelers, the transport area and course route framework have the capacity effortlessly recover data about transport. Global positioning system, additionally furnishing clients with the most limited strolling course to closest bus stop.
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Wu, Yang Yang, De Wei Chen, and Fan Xin Jia. "A Method to Optimize Composite Fore-Fulcrum Form Travelers in Single-Plane Cable-Stayed Bridges." Applied Mechanics and Materials 638-640 (September 2014): 911–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.638-640.911.
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This paper presents a method to optimize the composite fore-fulcrum form traveler which makes the traveler more reasonable and economical, and the method can be conveniently used by designers while designing form travelers for single-plane cable-stayed bridges using cantilever cast-in place construction method. After a general theoretical description (theory and process) of the optimization model, an engineering case is optimized using this method. And the method is proved feasible by analyzing the primary and optimized travelers in Midas Civil and comparing their properties.
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Qin, Shi Huan, Mo Song, Jian Ming Ying, and Li Neng Xu. "Bayesian Dynamic Model of Generalized Trip Cost Based on Traveler Perception." Advanced Materials Research 1030-1032 (September 2014): 2223–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1030-1032.2223.
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Research on trip choice has been a hotspot in the area of traffic science. Daily trip choice behavior can be regard as a reiterative process and each choice represent a process during which travelers’ experience accumulated. The consequence of each choice will affect the next trip choice and the most direct one is the influence on the change of generalized trip cost traveler perceived. Therefore, the generalized trip cost traveler perceived is defined as the gist of the choice on trip mode and trip route and Bayesian dynamic model of generalized trip cost based on traveler perception is established in this paper.
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Choe, Yeongbae, Hany Kim, and Hyo-Jae Joun. "Differences in Tourist Behaviors across the Seasons: The Case of Northern Indiana." Sustainability 11, no. 16 (August 12, 2019): 4351. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11164351.
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Seasonality is an essential factor influencing tourism demand and traveler behavior at the destination. As such, seasonality (i.e., the influx of tourists) needs to be managed by destination marketing organizations. Most tourism studies have focused mainly on the forecasting methods/metrics and the effect of seasonality at the aggregate level rather than understanding seasonal differences in the nature of the traveler and travel experience. The purpose of this study is to understand seasonality at both the aggregate market level and individual traveler level. As such, this study first utilizes the concept of the gravity model to understand seasonality in the number of inquiries through an official website. This study, then, uses seemingly unrelated regressions to estimate simultaneously the effect of various trip-related factors on overall trip expenditures and the length of the trip. The results show that the impact of seasonality on aggregated demand is surprisingly consistent across the seasons; however, individual-level analyses indicate that traveler behavior and travelers’ responses to advertising differ significantly across seasons. Thus, destination marketers need to understand the nature of seasonality of their specific markets more accurately to provide appropriate tourism products/services to their current and potential travelers.
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Holtz, Timothy H., and Mary D. Nettleman. "Emporiatrics: Diarrhea in Travelers." Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 11, no. 11 (November 1990): 606–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/646104.
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The litany of scatalogical euphemisms describing travelers’ diarrhea sounds more like a line-up for a horse race: turista, Aztec two-step, Ramses’ revenge, Casablanca crud, Bombay runs, Delhi belly and Tokyo trots. While the winner in this race is uncertain, the loser is the poor traveler whose most memorable image of an expensive, exotic vacation was a desperate search for bathrooms or confinement to a hotel room while others were enjoying the sights. Though self-limited and relatively mild compared to some diseases acquired abroad, the impact of travelers’ diarrhea on the traveler should not be underestimated.
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Pai, Wang, Hsu, Lin, and Chen. "On Ontology-Based Tourist Knowledge Representation and Recommendation." Applied Sciences 9, no. 23 (November 25, 2019): 5097. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app9235097.
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In the rapid development of the information technology age, many travelers search for travel articles through the Internet. These travel articles include the experience and knowledge of traveler, which can be used as a reference for tourism planning and attraction selection. At present, the most travel experience and knowledge is available in online travel reviews (OTR). OTR and eWOM (electronic word-of-mouth) contain a lot of knowledge of consumers and travelers. Many travelers often look for OTR content through virtual communities, blogs, and search engine, but the search results often cause information overload problems. In addition, through virtual communities, blogs, and search engines, an OTR search still requires using keywords. However, most travelers cannot know the name of the attraction; therefore, travelers cannot use the correct keywords to search. That causes travelers to be unable to get enough information from OTR and unable to make the best travel plan. Therefore, this study focuses on the ontology-based tourist knowledge representation and recommendation method. And the study is to search for popular attractions from the OTR content and construct a tourist knowledge structure for these travelers. When the tourists do not need to know the keywords of the popular attraction name, they just need to get their current location; and then ORT content will recommend the next attraction to the traveler, which helps the traveler make the correct travel decision. The evaluation result showed that the method proposed in this study can help the travelers to quickly make the travel decision and is better than the traditional searching methods.
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Angskun, Thara, and Jitimon Angskun. "A qualitative attraction ranking model for personalized recommendations." Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology 9, no. 1 (March 12, 2018): 2–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhtt-09-2016-0047.
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Purpose This paper aims to find a way to personalize attraction recommendations for travelers. The research objective is to find a more accurate way to suggest new attractions to each traveler based on the opinions of other like-minded travelers and the traveler’s preferences. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the goal, developers have created a personalized system to generate attraction recommendations. The system considers an individual traveler’s preferences to construct a qualitative attraction ranking model. The new ranking model is the result of blending two processes: K-means clustering and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Findings The performance of the developed recommendation system has been assessed by measuring the accuracy and scalability of the ranking model of the system. The experimental results indicate that the ranking model always returns accurate results independent of the number of attractions and the number of travelers in each cluster. The ranking model has also proved to be scalable because the processing time is independent of the numbers of travelers. Additionally, the results reveal that the overall system usability is at a very satisfactory level. Research limitations/implications The main theoretical implication is that integrating the processes of K-means and AHP techniques enables a new qualitative ranking model for personalized recommendations that deliver only high-quality attractions. However, the designed recommendation system has some limitations. First, it is necessary to manually update information about the new tourist attractions. Second, the overall response time depends on the internet bandwidth and latency. Practical implications This research contributes to the tourism business and individual travelers by introducing an accurate and scalable way to suggest new attractions to each traveler. The potential benefit includes possible increased revenue for travel agencies that offer personalized package tours and support individual travelers to make the final travel decisions. The designed system could also integrate with itinerary planning systems to plot out a journey that pinpoints what travelers will most enjoy. Originality/value This research proposes a design and implementation of a personalized recommendation system based on the qualitative attraction ranking model introduced in this article. The novel ranking model is designed and developed by integrating K-means and AHP techniques, which has proved to be accurate and scalable.
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Gündling, Felix, Florian Hopp, and Karsten Weihe. "Efficient monitoring of public transport journeys." Public Transport 12, no. 3 (September 12, 2020): 631–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12469-020-00248-8.
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Abstract Many things can go wrong on a journey. From minor disturbances like a track change to major problems like train cancellations, everything can happen. The broad availability of smartphones enables us to keep the traveler up-to-date with information relevant for the journey. This way, the traveler can react to changes as early as possible and make well-informed decisions. Naive approaches are too inefficient to monitor a large number of journeys in real-time. This paper presents an efficient way to monitor millions of journeys in parallel. In our approach, the selection of change notices to be communicated to a traveler may be flexibly adapted to the travelers individual needs.
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Jevinger, Åse, and Jan Persson. "Potentials of Context-Aware Travel Support during Unplanned Public Transport Disturbances." Sustainability 11, no. 6 (March 19, 2019): 1649. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11061649.
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Travel support for public transport today usually takes no or little account of the traveler’s personal needs and current context. Thereby, travelers are often suggested irrelevant travel plans, which may force them to search for information from other sources. In particular, this is a problem during unplanned disturbances. By incorporating the traveler’s context information into the travel support, travelers could be provided with individually tailored information. This would especially benefit travelers who find it more difficult than others to navigate the public transport system. Furthermore, it might raise the accessibility and general attractiveness of public transport. This paper contributes with an understanding of how information about the traveler’s context can enhance the support provided by travel planners, in the case of disturbances in public transport. In particular, the paper includes a high-level analysis of how and in which situations context information can be useful. The analysis shows how information about the traveler’s context can improve travel planners, as well as highlights some risks in relation to some identified scenarios. Several technologies for retrieving information about the physical context of the traveler are also identified. The study is based on a literature review, a workshop, and interviews with domain experts.
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Li, Yingguo, Zhijia Tan, and Qiong Chen. "Dynamics of a Transportation Network Model with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Users." Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2012 (2012): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/918405.
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This paper studies the dynamics of the traveler's day-to-day route adjustment process in the general transportation network with fixed or elastic demand and homogeneous or heterogeneous users. Each traveler is assumed to adjust his/her route choice according to the excess travel cost between the instantaneous experienced travel cost and a certain referred level, which induces an aggregate path flow dynamics. We call the path flow dynamics the excess travel cost dynamics, which corresponds to the excess payoff dynamics in evolutionary games and serves a general framework of modeling the homogeneous or heterogeneous route choice behavior of travelers.
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Polydoropoulou, Amalia, Moshe Ben-Akiva, Asad Khattak, and Geoffrey Lauprete. "Modeling Revealed and Stated En-Route Travel Response to Advanced Traveler Information Systems." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1537, no. 1 (January 1996): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198196153700106.
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Advanced traveler information systems (ATISs) are being developed to provide travelers with real-time information about traffic conditions. To evaluate the benefits of ATIS products and services, questions concerning the potential market, use, and travel response must be addressed. The present focus is on the en-route travel response to ATISs. The main objective is to explore how travelers deal with unexpected congestion and how they might respond to qualitative, quantitative, prescriptive, and predictive information. Data on travelers' route-switching decisions were obtained through a survey of California Bay Area automobile commuters. The effects of various factors, such as sources of congestion information (radio traffic reports versus observation), trip characteristics, and route attributes on traveler response to unexpected congestion, were investigated. Future response to ATIS technologies was explored by using stated preferences, that is, hypothetical ATIS scenarios. A combined reported and stated preference model of traveler response was developed. The results indicate that expected delays on the usual route, travel time on alternative routes, perceived congestion level on alternative routes, and information sources are important determinants of travel decision changes in response to unexpected delays. The modeling methodology identifies the effects of experience and behavioral inertia on choices and captures inherent biases in the stated preference responses. Overall, travelers are more likely to respond to specific quantitative delay information.
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Li, Xiaowei, Qiangqiang Ma, Wenbo Wang, and Baojie Wang. "Influence of Weather Conditions on the Intercity Travel Mode Choice: A Case of Xi’an." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2021 (August 23, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9969322.
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To explore the influence of weather conditions on the choice of the intercity travel mode of travelers, four modes of traveler transportation were studied in Xi'an, China, in March 2019: airplane, high-speed rail, conventional train, and express bus. The individual characteristics of travelers and intercity travel activity data were obtained, and they were matched with the weather characteristics at the departure time of the travelers. The Bayesian multinomial logit regression was employed to explore the relationship between the travel mode choice and weather characteristics. The results showed that temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind, air quality index, and visibility had significant effects on the travel mode selection of travelers, and the addition of these variables could improve the model’s predictive performance. The research results can provide a scientific decision basis for traveler flow transfer and the prediction of traffic modes choice due to the effects of climate change.
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Asa Akhrani, Lusy, and Chintya Fatima Dewi. "Indonesian traveler study: analyze the role of the big five personalities on hard adventure traveler type." Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Entrepreneurship 2, no. 2 (December 25, 2020): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.35912/joste.v2i2.551.
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Purpose: This study aims to determine the role of big five personalities simultaneously and partially towards the tendency of hard adventure travelers. Research methodology: This study will also look at the five traits found in the big five personalities which tend to play a role in the hard adventure traveler. This research is a replication study of Kristin Scott and John C. Mowen with a quantitative approach involving 1,558 subjects with a purposive sampling technique. Big five personality was measured using the big five infentory scale, while the hard adventure type would be measured using a scale from Scott & Mowen. Data analysis of this study using multiple regression techniques. Results: The results showed that there is a role of big five personalities that is simultaneous towards traveler's hard adventure type of 7,6%, whereas partially openness, extraversion, and neuroticism trait had a role towards the type of hard adventure, where openness trait had the biggest role towards hard adventure type. Limitations: Based on the magnitude of the role generated in this study, there are still other factors that can influence traveler's decision making to choose the traveling type, so that these other factors are expected to explore more. Contribution: This research can be a reference in the development of tourist attraction marketing by taking into account visitors' personality types.
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Pütz, Ole. "How Strangers Initiate Conversations: Interactions on Public Trains in Germany." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 47, no. 4 (March 20, 2017): 426–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241617697792.
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This article considers how strangers who use public transportation initiate conversations and how disruptions of the transportation system affect interactions among strangers. How conversations are initiated has rarely been discussed in the literature because the majority of research takes the initiation of talk for granted. Building on Goffman, the article tests two hypotheses that explain how strangers initiate conversations. The first hypothesis states that travelers rely on interactional rituals if they have to talk with others because of a rule against opening talk with strangers, a rule that can be relaxed if travelers are faced with disruptive events. The second hypothesis states that a conversation can be initiated without introductory remarks if a traveler’s focus of attention is discernible to another traveler, irrespective of the circumstances travelers find themselves in. I argue that the latter hypothesis better explains how strangers initiate conversations and discuss how this finding may be generalized.
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Wang, Ying, Kevin Kam Fung So, and Beverley A. Sparks. "Technology Readiness and Customer Satisfaction with Travel Technologies: A Cross-Country Investigation." Journal of Travel Research 56, no. 5 (July 31, 2016): 563–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287516657891.
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Technologies have dramatically transformed tourist experience. However, research has largely focused on traveler attitudes and technology adoption rather than their experience with travel technologies. Taking a cross-country perspective, this study examines the role of technology readiness (TR) as a personality trait in shaping travelers’ satisfaction with travel technologies, using airlines as a case study. Results of an online survey of travelers in Australia, China, and the United States revealed the moderating effects of the TR dimensions of optimism and innovativeness as well as country of residence on the relationships between perceived quality of technology-enabled services (TESs), satisfaction with TESs, overall satisfaction, and future behavior. These relationships were stronger among travelers with higher TR and varied across countries. The results suggest that tourism and hospitality service providers should incorporate measures of traveler TR and TESs’ performance into their customer-experience monitoring system.
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Wang, Jianqiang, and Shiwei Li. "The impact of travelers’ rationality degree heterogeneity in the Advanced Traveler Information System on the network traffic flow evolution." SIMULATION 93, no. 6 (February 6, 2017): 447–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0037549716688382.
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The interplay between traffic information, which is normally distributed by the Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) and travelers’ decision behaviors, is prone to lead to high complexity in the evolution process of network traffic flow. Considering the obvious heterogeneity that is reflected in the numerous ways that travelers adopt ATIS information and choose routes, the lognormal distribution is adopted to describe the heterogeneity of travelers’ rationality degree. Introducing habitual factors of traveler route choice, modeling ideas of Multi-Agent and Mixed Logit are utilized to construct the day-to-day evolution model of network traffic flow, which is based on the value difference of travelers’ cognitive travel time. Furthermore, an integrated simulation algorithm based on the Monte Carlo method is specially designed to solve the previous evolution model. The simulation indicates that a lower individual difference and a higher rationality degree would lead to a more obvious aggregation phenomenon of network traffic flow and inefficiency of operation in road networks.
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Lucas Frank. "Traveler." Callaloo 31, no. 3 (2008): 884. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.0.0148.
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Hobeika, Antoine, R. Sivanandan, Karen M. Jehanian, and Mary D. Ameen. "Advanced Traveler Information System Users' Needs in I-95 Northeast Corridor." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1537, no. 1 (January 1996): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198196153700108.
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The I-95 Corridor Coalition, comprising 28 transportation agencies and state and local departments of transportation and supported by a number of federal and quasipublic organizations, has embarked on an aggressive program to study and implement intelligent transportation system services along this priority corridor from Maine to Virginia. A key element to the success of this effort is that the travel information needs and desires of the I-95 travelers be satisfied. A comprehensive multimodal study was initiated by the I-95 Corridor Coalition to assess the advanced traveler information system needs of I-95 corridor users and to determine the market potential for such information. The stakeholders include user groups, providers, and producers. The target groups include local and long-distance (business and recreation) automobile travelers, transit users, intercity air travelers, and intercity rail travelers. The provider groups include state, regional, and local transportation agencies, whereas the producer groups include telecommunications companies, automobile manufacturers, and traveler information service providers. Several survey mechanisms were used to assess the user and provider information needs and will be used to assess the market potential. These include focus groups, telephone surveys, on-site surveys, and individual interviews. Thus far in the study users have ranked roadway safety, personal security, and traffic information high in importance. Users have also indicated a willingness to pay for multimodal traveler information services both for their pretrip planning and while en route.
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Benjamin S. Grossberg. "The Space Traveler's Husband, and: The Space Traveler and Wandering, and: Space Traveler, Great Filter, and: The Space Traveler and Crop Circles, and: The Space Traveler's Husband, and: The Space Traveler and Runaway Stars." Missouri Review 33, no. 2 (2010): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mis.2010.0002.
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Yulistiana, Eti, and I. Gusti Agung Oka Mahagangga. "Motivasi Host Couchsurfing.Com Area Denpasar Menjadi Pemandu Wisata Traveler." JURNAL DESTINASI PARIWISATA 5, no. 2 (November 1, 2018): 220. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/jdepar.2017.v05.i02.p06.
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Couchsurfing.com is social media which make traveler and local meet in tourist destination. Which is they dont know each other before meet. Share about anything and explore the tourist destination together. Purpose of this research is to know thet motivation of host on couchsurfing.com Denpasar area to be a tour guide for the traveler. This reseacrh used qualitative method. Data collected by observation, in-dept interview and literature study. Sampling technique used purposive sampling. The data analyzed through the stages of editing, classification, coding then interpretation. These results indicate that there is a lot of motivations of host couchsurfing.com Denpasar to be a tour guide for the traveler. The main motivations isself-actualization, includes practicing foreign language skills, train travel guides skill, improve personal communication skills, understand the character of the travelers, and dream. The second motivation is esteem needs, prestige and showing hospitality are the part of it. The three last motivation are belongingness and love needs, safety needs, physiological needs.
Keywords:Motivation, Couchsurfing.com, Tour Guide, Traveler
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Sunkanapalli, Sridhar, Ram M. Pendyala, and Arun R. Kuppam. "Dynamic Analysis of Traveler Attitudes and Perceptions Using Panel Data." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1718, no. 1 (January 2000): 52–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1718-07.
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A dynamic analysis of travelers’ attitudes, preferences, and values was carried out using three waves of the Puget Sound Transportation Panel survey to investigate dynamics in traveler attitudes and perceptions. An in-depth descriptive analysis was performed to examine the variations in attitudinal ratings over time. A traditional one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) method was used to explore for similarities and differences in traveler attitudinal ratings across different waves of the panel survey. A similar analysis was performed on the stayer sample (i.e., the respondents who participated in all three waves of the panel used in this study). The ANOVA results show significant differences in mean attitudinal ratings across the three waves of the panel survey. The differences in traveler attitudes and perceptions among stayers, dropouts (respondents who leave the panel survey), and refreshments (respondents who are newly recruited as the panel survey proceeds) were also captured. Finally, differences in traveler attitudes and preferences across different modal market segments were examined. The results indicate the need for greater consideration of attitudinal dynamics in transportation planning and policy analysis.
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Sahinoglu, Meyrem Arga. "Opinions of Vicente Blasco Ibanez, one of Travelers of 20th Century about Clothes of Turks (Example of “Orient Before The Stormâ€)." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (February 19, 2016): 149–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v2i1.292.
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“Travel books†or “itineraries†which are one of the oldest types of literature are the works of travelers who traveled different regions for different reasons and transfer the lives, cultures of the people where they travelled to the next generations.Starting point of the author in itineraries is “geography†rather than events. Depending on this fact, the subject of an itinerary is the climate of the region, historical works, old-new buildings, clothes, details of the daily life etc. It is possible to assess itineraries as documents supporting historical, geographical and sociology sciences in terms of contentsThe purpose of this research is to determine the opinions of 20th century travelers on the clothes of Turks. In the research the itinerary of Vicente Blasco Ibanez named “Orient Before the Storm†was examined and it was tried to determine the opinions of the author about garments of that era. In “Orient Before the Storm†which is the travel notes of the Spanish traveler who came to Istanbul in August 1907, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, the great man of letters who is one of the leading politicians of his country states that what was told about Turks in Europe were not correct and wrote his detections which are remarkable even today. In the itinerary there are significant clues on clothing of Turks. Vicente Blasco Ibanez states in his itinerary that Ottoman garments were smart and magnificent.Keywords: travel book, ottoman dress.
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Uçar, Tamer, and Adem Karahoca. "Benchmarking data mining approaches for traveler segmentation." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 11, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 409. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v11i1.pp409-415.
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The purpose of this study is proposing a hybrid data mining solution for traveler segmentation in tourism domain which can be used for planning user-oriented trips, arranging travel campaigns or similar services. Data set used in this work have been provided by a travel agency which contains flight and hotel bookings of travelers. Initially, the data set was prepared for running data mining algorithms. Then, various machine learning algorithms were benchmarked for performing accurate traveler segmentation and prediction tasks. Fuzzy C-means and X-means algorithms were applied for clustering user data. J48 and multilayer perceptron (MLP) algorithms were applied for classifying instances based on segmented user data. According to the findings of this study, J48 has the most effective classification results when applied on the data set which is clustered with X-means algorithm. The proposed hybrid data mining solution can be used by travel agencies to plan trip campaigns for similar travelers.
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Kasbaum, Marie, Catalina V. Lizarraga, Alejandro De la Hoz, Jinnethe Reyes, and Cesar A. Arias. "1670. Access to Antibiotics Without Prescription for Travelers and Colombian Citizens at Community Pharmacies in Bogotá, Colombia: A Cross-Sectional Study." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 6, Supplement_2 (October 2019): S611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1534.
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Abstract Background Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens often emerge in communities where antibiotics are frequently sold without prescriptions. In Colombia, nonprescription sale of antibiotics still occurs despite national regulations. Use of antimicrobials in international travelers has been linked to the rapid dissemination of multidrug-resistant pathogens around the globe. Despite the exponential increase of international visitors to Colombia recently, there is a notable lack of studies investigating the accessibility of antibiotics to foreign travelers without prescriptions in Colombian pharmacies. Methods This cross-sectional study compares the access to antibiotics without prescription in community pharmacies between travelers from the United States and local Colombian citizens in Bogotá. Both groups visited 91 pharmacies and conducted trials as covert simulated clients (SCs). The SCs followed a standardized script when interacting with pharmacy personnel, acting as though they were seeking antibiotics for moderate Traveler’s Diarrhea (TD), without a prescription. Data were gathered on the employees’ responses, including the level of “prompting” needed for an employee to offer antibiotics, reasons given to the SCs for refusing to sell antibiotics if no sale was offered, and generic brand of compounds offered. Results Antibiotics were offered to the US travelers in 62 (68.13%) pharmacies, and to the Colombian group in 57 (62.64%) pharmacies. The traveler group was significantly more likely than the comparator group to be offered antibiotics without any prompting (P = 0.003). When pharmacy employees refused to sell antibiotics during trials, the traveler group was significantly more likely to be given a clinical reason not to receive antibiotics. Refusal to Colombian citizens was more frequently due legal reasons (P < 0.001). Conclusion Antibiotics were accessible without prescriptions at similarly high frequencies, regardless of the customers’ nationality. The US travelers were more likely than the Colombian group to be offered antibiotics without needing to prompt the pharmacist. Additionally, pharmacists were much more likely to deny antibiotics to the Colombian group due to legal reasons, as opposed to clinical reasons for US travelers. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.
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Schlagenhauf, Patricia, and Eskild Petersen. "Malaria Chemoprophylaxis: Strategies for Risk Groups." Clinical Microbiology Reviews 21, no. 3 (July 2008): 466–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00059-07.
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SUMMARY The risk of malaria for travelers varies from region to region and depends on the intensity of transmission, the duration of the stay in the area of endemicity, the style of travel, and the efficacy of preventive measures. The decision to recommend chemoprophylaxis to travelers to areas with a low risk of malarial infection is especially difficult because the risk of infection must be balanced with the risk of experiencing side effects. If the risk of side effects by far exceeds the risk of infection, the traveler needs information on measures against mosquito bites and advice on prompt diagnosis and self-treatment. The risk is difficult to quantify, and the absolute risk for travelers to most areas is not known, especially because the populations at risk are unknown. We propose here that the best approximation of the risk to the traveler to a specific area is to use the risk to the indigenous population as a guideline for the risk to the traveler, and we provide examples on how risk in the indigenous population can be used for the estimation of risk of malarial infection for travelers. Special groups are long-term visitors and residents, who often perceive risk differently, cease using chemoprophylaxis, and rely on self-diagnosis and treatment. For long-term visitors, the problem of fake drugs needs to be discussed. Strategies for chemoprophylaxis and self-treatment of pregnant women and small children are discussed. So far, malaria prophylaxis is recommended to prevent Plasmodium falciparum infections, and primaquine prophylaxis against persistent Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale infections in travelers is not recommended.
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Kofman, Aaron, Paula Eggers, Anne Kjemtrup, Rebecca Hall, Shelley Brown, Mary Choi, Hayley Yaglom, et al. "LB7. Contract Tracing Investigation Following First Case of Andes Virus in the United States." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 5, suppl_1 (November 2018): S761—S762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy229.2181.
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Abstract Background In January 2018, a patient admitted to a Delaware hospital tested positive for New World hantavirus by IgM and IgG ELISA. Subsequent testing by CDC’s Viral Special Pathogens Branch (VSPB) confirmed Andes virus (ANDV) by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and sequencing. ANDV is transmitted to humans through contact with long-tailed rice rats endemic to Argentina and Chile. Unlike other hantavirus species, ANDV can be transmitted person to person, but transmission is typically limited to close contacts of ill persons. Because of this risk, a contact tracing investigation was initiated by CDC, state and county health departments. Method A suspect case was defined as a person with close contact with the traveler who became ill within the maximum incubation period (42 days) following last contact. A high-risk contact was defined as a person with exposure to the traveler’s body fluids. A low-risk contact was defined as a person who had provided care or in-flight service to, or was seated near the traveler for at least 1 hour, in the absence of exposure to body fluids. All contacts were advised to self-monitor their temperature daily for 42 days from last contact, and to seek medical care for any of the specified symptoms. Contacts that developed symptoms were tested for ANDV by RT-PCR and serology by VSPB. Result Fifty-three contacts were identified in six states; 51 were successfully reached. Of these, 28 were healthcare workers, 15 were airline contacts, seven were acquaintances of the traveler, and one was a hospital roommate. Two high-risk contacts were identified, both of whom remained asymptomatic. Six low-risk contacts reported influenza-like illness, diarrhea, or mild rhinitis during the incubation period. All six symptomatic low-risk contacts tested negative for ANDV by PCR, IgM, and IgG. The remaining low-risk contacts remained asymptomatic. Conclusion Hospitalized patients with ANDV should be managed with standard, contact, and droplet precautions. While the risk of human-to-human transmission is low, contact tracing should be considered to identify potential cases and limit additional exposures. Health providers should consider ANDV in returning travelers with a nonspecific febrile or acute respiratory illness who have traveled to the Andes region of Argentina or Chile in the preceding 6 weeks. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.
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Diemert, David J. "Prevention and Self-Treatment of Traveler's Diarrhea." Clinical Microbiology Reviews 19, no. 3 (July 2006): 583–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00052-05.
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SUMMARYOf the millions who travel from the industrialized world to developing countries every year, between 20% and 50% will develop at least one episode of diarrhea, making it the most common medical ailment afflicting travelers. Although usually a mild illness, traveler's diarrhea can result in significant morbidity and hardship overseas. Precautions can be taken to minimize the risk of developing traveler's diarrhea, either through avoidance of potentially contaminated food or drink or through various prophylactic measures, including both nonpharmacological and antimicrobial strategies. If diarrhea does develop despite the precautions taken, effective treatment—usually a combination of an antibiotic and an antimotility agent—can be brought by the traveler and initiated as soon as symptoms develop. In the future, vaccines—several of which are in the advanced stages of clinical testing—may be added to the list of prophylactic measures.
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Lee, Chaeryoung, Sung Kwan Hong, and Jong Hun Kim. "An Imported Case of Afebrile Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Infection from Tanzania in a Returning Traveler to the Republic of Korea following an Earlier COVID-19 Infection." Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 7, no. 4 (April 8, 2022): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7040059.
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Malaria is well-known as one of the most common causes of fever among travelers returning from endemic areas such as tropical African countries. However, afebrile Plasmodium falciparum malaria has rarely been reported in a returning traveler with no prior history of malaria infection. Here, we report an imported case of afebrile P. falciparum malaria infection from Tanzania in a returning traveler to the Republic of Korea, following an earlier COVID-19 infection without previous history of malaria infection. Our case suggests the hypothesis that severe symptoms of P. falciparum malaria infection might be prevented by cross- immunity from previous COVID-19 infection.
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Fahik, Paskalia Frida, Anderias Umbu Roga, Jacob M. Ratu, Agus A. Nalle, and Christina Olly Lada. "The Effect of Travel Personnel Knowledge on Compliance Levels With Covid -19 Health Protocols During the 14-Day Mandiri Isolation Period in Malaka District." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 9, no. 2 (February 13, 2022): 75–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.92.10283.
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The traveler from outside Malacca Regency carried out independent isolation for 14 days by implementing the COVID-19 health protocol, namely washing hands with soap under running water, wearing masks, maintaining distance, not crowding.
This study aims to analyze the effect of the knowledge of travelers on the level of compliance with the COVID-19 health protocol, using a quantitative analytical research approach or method with a cross sectional study approach. The object of research is the knowledge of travelers in Wehali village, Central Malaka District, which was carried out in December 2020 by filling out a validated questionnaire. The population in the study was 58 respondents, the variables in this study were 2, namely the independent variable was the knowledge of the traveler and the dependent variable was adherence to the COVID-19 health protocol.
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Aramă, Victoria, Ioan Diaconu, Laurenţiu Stratan, and Sorin Ştefan Aramă. "The role of Rifaximine-α in traveler’s diarrhea therapy." Romanian Journal of Infectious Diseases 19, no. 1 (March 31, 2016): 30–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.37897/rjid.2016.1.6.
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Traveler’s diarrhea (TD) is an acute, self-limited disease, caused by a wide array of germs that possess intestinal tropism. Among the 12 million people travelling annually to tropical or subtropical areas, 30% up to 70% are affected by TD. A single episode of diarrhea can severely impair, sometimes severe, the performance of special categories of travelers, like sportsmen, business people, or diplomats in specific missions. The disease has an equal distribution among sexes, occurring with a higher frequency among the youth. The Enterotoxigenic E.coli is the main pathogen incriminated in 80 to 90% of TD’cases. Recent international infectious disease or traveler medicine guidelines are recommending Rifaximine-α(RFX) as the first therapeutical option with the highest level of recommendation and evidence (IA) in treating or preventing non-invasive forms of TD. The normal daily dosage in these cases is 800 mg of RFX for at least 3 days. RFX is a non-absorbable (intestinal) antibiotic which has clinically proven its high rate of success regarding its safety and efficacy in treating and preventing TD. Referring to TD’s prevention, it must be mentioned that even though antibiotic prophylaxis is not routinely recommended while travelling (at least in cases of more than 3 weeks of travel), this approach should be serious taken into consideration for several types of high risk traveler patients who present at least one of the following conditions: immunodeficiency, chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases, kidney failure or diabetes mellitus. But even there are or not real reasons in recommending antibiotic prophylaxis, Rifaximine-α should not miss from any personal first-aid traveler-kit.
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Lim, Bryan Chang Wei, and Gerard Thomas Flaherty. "Leaving Light Footprints – the Importance of Promoting Responsible International Travel." International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health 6, no. 3 (September 25, 2018): 88–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijtmgh.2018.18.
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Irresponsible travel has the potential to harm both the traveler and the host destination. The subject of responsible travel is a major focus of the International Society of Travel Medicine, whose Responsible Travel special interest group has been very active in providing leadership for travel medicine practitioners in relation to the protection of local travel destination communities. Healthcare professionals have a responsibility to safeguard the dual interests of travelers and their hosts. This can be achieved by drawing the traveler’s attention to examples of irresponsible tourism during the pre-travel consultation. This perspective article aims to explore various aspects of irresponsible travel, including environmental damage travelers may cause; medical tourism and its impact on both the home and destination health service; voluntourism involving poorly prepared volunteers interacting with vulnerable communities in the host country; and sex tourism, including prostitution and child trafficking. Further research is needed to better understand the attitudes of travelers, travel health professionals, and the travel industry towards responsible tourism and to overcome barriers to its implementation.
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Zhang, Xiaonan, Jianjun Wang, Xueqin Long, and Weijia Li. "Understanding the intention to use bike-sharing system: A case study in Xi’an, China." PLOS ONE 16, no. 12 (December 2, 2021): e0258790. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258790.
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Bike-sharing is widely recognized as an eco-friendly mode of transportation and seen as one of the solutions to the problem of air pollution and congestion. With the emphasis on sustainability in transportation, bike-sharing systems is an emerging topic of urban transport and sustainable mobility related research. Existing studies mainly explored the factors affecting individuals’ initial intentions to start using a shared bicycle, but few looked at the likelihood that a user would continue using one This study proposed a structural equation model with bike-sharing purchase decision involvement as independent variable, bike-sharing willingness to use as dependent variable, traveler participation and traveler perceived value as intermediary variables by introducing the concepts of purchase decision involvement, customer participation and perceived value in consumer psychology and behavior. A survey on bike-sharing users in Xi’an was conducted online and offline, and 622 effective responses were collected. The research model was tested by Amos 24.0 and the empirical results showed that All influencing factors including bike-sharing’s purchase decision-making involvement, traveler participation and traveler’s perceived value are found to be significantly and positively associated with usage intention; traveler perceived value play a chain-mediating role between bike-sharing purchase decision involvement and usage intention; bike-sharing purchase decision involvement have indirect effects on traveler perceived value through traveler participation. The results of this study enrich the current research’s in the field of sharing economy, and it is certain guiding significant for how to obtain and maintain stable customers in bicycle-sharing industry.
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Adler, Thomas, C. Stacey Falzarano, and Gregory Spitz. "Modeling Service Trade-Offs in Air Itinerary Choices." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1915, no. 1 (January 2005): 20–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198105191500103.
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The application of a mixed logit approach using stated-preference survey data to the development of itinerary choice models is described. The models include the effects on itinerary choices of airline, airport, aircraft type, fare, access time, flight time, scheduled arrival time, and on-time performance. The empirical results demonstrate the importance of explicitly accounting for traveler preference heterogeneities by using segmentation by trip purpose, interaction effects involving frequent flier status, and random parameter specifications. Explicitly including preference heterogeneity by using the mixed logit specification results in significant statistical improvements and important coefficient differences as compared with using a standard fixed-parameter logit model. The calculated marginal rates of substitution show the relative importance that travelers assign to key service variations among itineraries. All service features that were included in the model had significant values to travelers, and the values were affected, as would be expected, by the traveler's frequent flier status. Although current reservation and ticketing services provide information to prospective travelers on most of these itinerary features, most services do not report on-time performance, which, however, can be an important selection criterion for travelers.
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Javadian Sabet, Alireza, Mahsa Shekari, Chaofeng Guan, Matteo Rossi, Fabio Schreiber, and Letizia Tanca. "THOR: A Hybrid Recommender System for the Personalized Travel Experience." Big Data and Cognitive Computing 6, no. 4 (November 4, 2022): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bdcc6040131.
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One of the travelers’ main challenges is that they have to spend a great effort to find and choose the most desired travel offer(s) among a vast list of non-categorized and non-personalized items. Recommendation systems provide an effective way to solve the problem of information overload. In this work, we design and implement “The Hybrid Offer Ranker” (THOR), a hybrid, personalized recommender system for the transportation domain. THOR assigns every traveler a unique contextual preference model built using solely their personal data, which makes the model sensitive to the user’s choices. This model is used to rank travel offers presented to each user according to their personal preferences. We reduce the recommendation problem to one of binary classification that predicts the probability with which the traveler will buy each available travel offer. Travel offers are ranked according to the computed probabilities, hence to the user’s personal preference model. Moreover, to tackle the cold start problem for new users, we apply clustering algorithms to identify groups of travelers with similar profiles and build a preference model for each group. To test the system’s performance, we generate a dataset according to some carefully designed rules. The results of the experiments show that the THOR tool is capable of learning the contextual preferences of each traveler and ranks offers starting from those that have the higher probability of being selected.
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Davis, Alan, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, Allan Gurganus, B. Wongar, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Arundhati Roy, and George V. Higgins. "Armchair Traveler." Hudson Review 51, no. 2 (1998): 433. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3853080.
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Ahmed Mohamed, Fatema, Shaimaa Zaki, Samaa A.Fattah, Hadeer A.Moez, Yasmeen Salah, and Wessam El-Behaidy. "Traveler program." النشرة المعلوماتیة فی الحاسبات والمعلومات 1, no. 3 (October 15, 2019): 33–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/fcihib.2019.107523.
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Korzeniewski, Krzysztof. "Extreme traveler." International Maritime Health 71, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 281–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5603/imh.2020.0048.
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Hall, Daniel. "ONE TRAVELER." Yale Review 87, no. 4 (September 20, 2010): 118–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9736.1999.tb00074.x.
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