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China's Insurance Companies Offer Policy for Altitude Sickness

... Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which has resulted in more tourist visiting the high-altitude region and an increase in altitude sickness cases. According to a research, 30 percent of all visitors to Tibet suffer from headaches, vomiting or breathing problems. (Source: IANS/Xinhua)...

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever hits Turkey

...to the authorities, no cases have been reported in tourist areas along the Mediterranean coast. CCHF is primarily an animal disease, but can also affect humans. It is endemic in parts of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe and is transmitted by ticks, which thrive on sheep and cattle. The disease affects main...

Apollo Group Planning to Set up a Hospital in Fiji

...oposal to develop medical tourism because although tourist numbers have been high in recent years, that may taper off. The Apollo chain of hospitals was started in India in 1983. Today, it is the largest private healthcare chain in the Asia-Africa region with branches in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Niger...

British Tourist In Hong Kong Has Mad Cow Disease

A British tourist in Hong Kong is suspected of having the human variety of mad cow disease. The 23-year-old man has not been named and was admitted to a Hog Kong hospital// after he began behaving oddly. Hospital Authority in Hong Kong said the man came to the country...

Nepal Uncorks 'Herbal Wine'

..." is the brainchild of Jhalak Thapa, a resident of tourist town Pokhara in western Nepal, whose life is as piquant as his novel enterprise. For many families, alcohol is an integral part of life, especially in the biting winters, and a variety of local liquors thrive in Nepal's markets along with foreign b...

Luxury Spas Ride Boom in Wellness Industry in Poland

... only from Poland. Last year the country's state tourist board launched a media blitz in Western Europe featuring a buxom young nurse. Designed to attract attention to Poland's sanatoria, she stood against a backdrop of leafy sanatorium scenery with the somewhat suggestive quote of "I'm expecting you" p...

Nepal Plans to Promote Health Tourism Based on Traditional Medicine

...ourism investment along the lines of Kerala, a hot tourist destination for ayurvedic treatments and health pa...e proposals are Indians who form the major bulk of tourist flow to Nepal, which is striving to raise the inflow from the current level of 375,000. Source-IA...

Kerala Tourism Affected by Viral Fever Outbreak

...caused by mosquito bites, is apprehensive that the tourist season starting mid-October might not take off.// ...r have occurred in Alappuzha district, a favourite tourist destination in the state with its popular houseboats. The other tourist destinations affected by the...

Dengue Outbreak Feared in Nepal

...Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, Chitwan, a popular tourist destination famed for its one-horned rhino and alligator population, and Birgunj, Nepal's industrial hub. According to G.D. Thakur, chief of disease control at the Department of Health Services, the ades agepti, the mosquito that carries the virus,...

Kerala Tourism Will not be Affected by Chikungunya: Minister

...laimed more than 130 lives in this season, had hit tourist hotspots like Alappuzha, Kumarakom, Kollam and Kovalam. The fresh tourist season is all set to commence later this month and the industry is gearing up for it. "We have giv...

Tour Packages To Include Treatment And Check-up

...als all over the country, 160 of which were in the tourist center, the metro Manila, added Clemente. But the hospitals in the country have to improve upon their facilities to achieve this aim and to become the "newest hub of medical tourism in Asia,"she added. PRI...

India to Be Made Medical and Health Tourism Destination

... written// reply she said, to attract more foreign tourist to the country Ministry of Tourism in collaboratio...which can be given for specific purpose to foreign tourist coming to Indian for medical treatment. v) Guidelines for accreditation of Ayurvedic and Panchkarm...

Visitors At Taj Can Now Avail Of Medical Facilities

...the Taj, he said. The Taj Mahal is India's biggest tourist draw. Source-IANS...

Haryana Tourism Complexes to Serve Low Calorie Dishes

Tourists visiting or passing by state-run tourist complexes in Haryana will have something new to lo...ngeover by the Haryana tourism in menus across its tourist complexes starting Jan 1, 2007. Cooks from Haryana tourism's complexes were given a few culinary l...

International Study Finds Ways to Maximize Effective Responses After Terrorism Incidents

...sider that many terrorist bombings occur in remote tourist communities in developing countries such as Turkey.... This complicates the response since hospitals in tourist communities do not typically have the resources to attend to many severely injured casualties. There...

'Bistronomy' is Conquering Dining in Paris

...lk in fair weather) situated in the heart of Paris tourist country, just off the Boulevard St Germain. And La Regalade has been taken over by Bruno Doucet, who retained the original bistronomic recipe of gourmet cooking and relaxed dining while adding his own personal touch to the menu. Located far away ...

Water Crisis Wreaks Havoc on Irish City

...have on what is traditionally the beginning of the tourist season in the west of Ireland. One hotelier said it was costing him up to 2,000 euros a week to provide bottled water for his guests, and he was now being forced to install his own filtration system. However, a local expert warned that filtrati...

Lake Superior in US Losing Ice Cover Fast, Signaling Global Warming

...rs at the University of Minnesota Duluth.A popular tourist spot,it is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. Summer surface temperatures on this famously cold lake have increased about 4.5 degrees since 1979, compared with about a 2.7-degree increase in the region's annual average air te...

Shimla Faces Water Crisis

...coming weeks as the dry spell grows along with the tourist rush. Relief is only expected when the 45 km away Giri river water supply scheme starts supplying water to a thirsty Shimla by year-end. Source-IANS/L...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

...f Anhui successfully lobbied for an airport in the tourist city of Huangshan to alter flight paths so that planes did not distract students taking the test, Xinhua reported. Countless students are renting rooms near test venues or following strict diets believed to increase alertness, it said. In southwe...

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