Health aspects of antarctic tourism

• Published in: Journal of Travel Medicine
• Main Author: Prociv, Paul
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BC Decker Inc. 1998
• Subjects: 2725 Infectious Diseases; 2739 Public Health; Environmental and Occupational Health; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Argentine; New Zealand; The Antarctic; Ushuaia; Antarc*; Antarctica; Siberia
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:712397

Increasing numbers of seaborne tourists are visiting Antarctica, with most coming from the United States (3503 in 1996-97), Germany (777), and Australia (680; cf. 356 in 1994-95 and 410 in 1995-96). The impression among travel medicine clinicians is that, each year, more prospective travelers seek a...