Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience
Summary Financially comfortable, with ample spare time and much better health, olderpeople travel more than ever and to more adventurous destinations. Taking Australian senioradventure travellers to Peru as an example, travel health preparations need to take intoaccount the phenomenon ‘senior travel...
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| description | Summary Financially comfortable, with ample spare time and much better health, olderpeople travel more than ever and to more adventurous destinations. Taking Australian senioradventure travellers to Peru as an example, travel health preparations need to take intoaccount the phenomenon ‘senior traveller’, the destination with its attractions and challenges,and age-related changes and restrictions. The need for routine travel health advice,vaccinations and prophylaxis remains unchanged. However, more emphasis should be placedon locality-specific issues so that age-appropriate advice and preparations maximize thechances for a safe and memorable travel experience. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-490542017-03-15T22:56:02Z Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience Bauer, Irmgard Travel health advice - Adventure travel - Older person Summary Financially comfortable, with ample spare time and much better health, olderpeople travel more than ever and to more adventurous destinations. Taking Australian senioradventure travellers to Peru as an example, travel health preparations need to take intoaccount the phenomenon ‘senior traveller’, the destination with its attractions and challenges,and age-related changes and restrictions. The need for routine travel health advice,vaccinations and prophylaxis remains unchanged. However, more emphasis should be placedon locality-specific issues so that age-appropriate advice and preparations maximize thechances for a safe and memorable travel experience. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49054 Elsevier Science restricted |
| spellingShingle | Travel health advice - Adventure travel - Older person Bauer, Irmgard Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience |
| title | Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience |
| title_full | Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience |
| title_fullStr | Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience |
| title_short | Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience |
| title_sort | australian senior adventure travellers to peru: maximising older tourists' travel health experience |
| topic | Travel health advice - Adventure travel - Older person |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49054 |