Traveler's Health and Safety Sourcebook, Second Edition

Traveling offers a wonderful opportunity to meet new people, make friends, explore different cultures, and broaden one's perspective about the world. It serves as an excellent stress buster, allowing individuals to disconnect from their daily routines. According to the National Travel & Tourism Office (NTTO), 41,773,808 U.S. citizens traveled overseas in 2018, marking a 9 percent increase from the previous year. While traveling brings joy, it's essential to recognize potential health and safety risks and take appropriate measures. Traveler's Health and Safety Sourcebook, Second Edition provides comprehensive information on travel health, safety advisories, and potential risks associated with various types of travel. It covers health risks such as viral infections, jet lag, fish poisoning, altitude sickness, along with discussions on modes of travel, hosting exchange students, hotel hazards, and pretravel preparations. Special considerations for travelers with conditions like immunocompromised status, pregnancy, disabilities, and the outbreak of COVID-19 in different countries are also addressed. Additionally, the book offers insights into safety and security measures while traveling, concluding with a glossary of traveler-related terms and a directory of resources for further assistance. Part 1: Introduction to Travel Health and Safety provides an overview of travel and tourism, including information on travel safety and security tips, advisories, and a traveler's checklist. It also addresses frequently asked questions related to traveler's health. Part 2: Types of Traveling That Pose Health and Safety Risks discusses traveling abroad and across the United States along with information about studying abroad, long-term travelers and expatriates, types of travel such as summer travel, adventure travel, and high-risk area travel. It explains how to maintain vigilance while traveling abroad. Part 3: Health Risks during Travel provides details on the outbreak of COVID-19 and explains how it affects travelers. It gives information about various other diseases that affect travelers such as blood clots, brucellosis, fevers, listeriosis, and viral infections during travel. It also discusses other health risk factors such as altitude sickness, jet lag, and sun exposures. Part 4: Modes of Travel and Types of Shelters discusses the different types of tourist accommodations, modes of travel that include cruise ship travel, chartered flight for travel, and renting a car along with information on hosting a foreign exchange student, bus safety tips, and hazards of hoteling. Part 5: Pretravel Preparations provides information on travel insurance, vaccines to consider before traveling, such as travel and routine vaccines. It also talks about shopping abroad and travel health kits. Part 6: Travelers with Special Considerations includes information about pregnant travelers, senior travelers, traveling with children, immunocompromised travelers, traveling with chronic illnesses, traveling with pets, and so on. Part 7: Safety and Security While Traveling at Your Destination discusses the visa fraud warning, customs and import restrictions, cybersecurity tips while abroad, information on lost and stolen passport abroad, driving and road safety abroad, arrest or detention abroad, and death during travel. Part 8: Additional Help and Information includes a glossary of terms related to travelers and a directory of resources for further help and support.