ments selling their services including tour operators and travel agents. In a wider sense, all firms and establishments serving the needs of travellers, also described as travel trade, sometimes used synonymously with tourism industry.
travel insurance Contract providing, in consideration of a premium, for payment of a sum of money in the event of certain travelrelated happenings. A travel insurance policy normally covers as a minimum: (a) personal accident; (b) medical and related expenses; (c) cancellation and curtailment; (d) travel abandonment and delay; (e) belongings and money; (f) personal liability.
religious travel/tourism responsible tourism roots tourism rural tourism sex tourism social tourism soft tourism space travel/tourism sports tourism sustainable tourism thanatourism urban tourism vacation farm tourism youth tourism See also holidays (vacations) forms/ terms/types.
travel sickness See motion sickness
travel trade See travel industry
travel/tourism forms/terms/types
travel voucher An all-purpose voucher
See agritourism/agricultural tourism alternative tourism Antarctic tourism appropriate tourism Arctic tourism business travel/tourism circuit tourism city tourism common interest travel/tourism community tourism cultural tourism domestic travel/tourism ecotourism ethnic tourism export tourism factory tourism farm stay tourism farm tourism green tourism hard tourism health tourism heritage tourism import tourism inbound/travel tourism incentive travel/tourism indigenous tourism industrial tourism internal travel/tourism international travel/tourism Koori tourism long haul/short haul travel/tourism mass tourism national travel/tourism nature tourism outbound travel/tourism
issued by a tour operator to another person or organization, such as ground handling agent, to cover prepaid elements of a package tour. The voucher may cover admission to tourist/visitor attractions, local transport, meals or other items. See also Miscellaneous Charges Order (MCO).
travel warrant Voucher providing written authorization to a carrier to issue a ticket to its holder. Issued under an arrangement by an organization with the carrier, e.g., by a military unit for military personnel to obtain a ticket to travel by rail.
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travel-related illnesses See AIDS Montezuma’s altitude sickness revenge amoebiasis motion sickness bilharziasis mountain sickness breakbone fever polio(myelitis) cholera rabies Delhi belly schistosomiasis dengue tetanus diphtheria tick-borne hepatitis A encephalitis hepatitis B travel sickness hepatitis C traveller’s diarrhoea Japanese encephalitis (traveler’s diarrhea) Legionnaires Disease tuberculosis leishmaniasis typhoid malaria yellow fever meningitis See also immunization for travellers; notifiable disease; quarantine.
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