Travel Warning
United Kingdom Travellers To Africa And Asia Continue To Ignore Health Messages About Preventing Malaria
A study by the Health Protection Agency’s Malaria Reference Laboratory (HPA) and published in today’s BMJ.com shows that despite highly effective measures available to prevent malaria, the burden of disease among UK travellers has steadily increased over the last 20 years.
There were 39,300 cases of malaria in the UK between 1987 and 2006. Of these [...]
New Report Details How as Commercial Air Carriers Struggle, Private Jets Boom at Public’s Expense
As Americans prepare to pay extra for checked bags, wait in long lines, and endure crowded commercial flights this summer, super-wealthy private jet owners are enjoying tax breaks and luxury at the public’s expense. “High Flyers: How Private Jet Travel Is Straining the System, Warming the Planet, and Costing You Money,” a new report from [...]
More pressure on Australia to lift Bali travel
The pressure is mounting for Australia to follow the United States’ lead in revoking its advisory against travel to Bali, Indonesia.
Adding to those putting pressure on the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT) is the Little Bali Hotel & Resort Company (LBHRC). The LBHRC call for action follows the release of a State [...]
United States travel warning`s lifting to increase tourist visiting to Indoensia
The lifting of a US travel warning on Indonesia is expected to help increase the number of US tourist arrivals in the country in 2008, a presidential spokesman said.
“The lifting of the travel warning is something we have been waiting for a long time,” Dino Pati Djalal said here on Monday in response to the [...]
