| The flourishing development of tourism speeds up the population shift all over the world and adds more chances which make tourists approach infectious diseases as well. Looking back through the history, infectious diseases made tremendous disasters to the human civilization that terrified people much.When pestilence disappeared in 1351,30.000.000 Europeans had been dead. 35.000 people died in London while there were 60.000 people before. 90% of the Eastern Europeans were infected by the influenza during 1742-1743. During the worldwide Spanish influenza between 1918-1919, 40% of the population had got the diseases while 25.000.000-50.000.000 people died from it. The death was far more than in the First World War. At the end of the 19th century, the third bubonic plague broke out among more than 60 countries extending over Asia, Europe, America and Africa. It made thousands of hundreds of people dead. In 1988,"jiaxing" hepatitis erupted in Shanghai where there were 10 thousand patients every day. At last, 310.746 people got the disease and 31 people died in all. In 2003, "SARS" made 8.437 people become ill and 813 people die. Each infectious disease's worldwide popularity not only does harm to people's health directly, but also affect world's economy, especially tourism. When "SARS" spreading, the world's tourism lost 5.000.000 working chances. Our country lost 16.000.000 man-times entering-country travel and 3.750.000.000 dollar. At the same time, internal travel reduced 250.000.000 man-times and 110.450.000.000 Yuan, To make mattersworse, it affected imports and export trade, foreign merchants' investment and so on. It made our own country not achieve the level which we should have realized. How can we deal with the disaster which infectious diseases make to travel during the development of tourism? How can we cut down the effect infectious diseases bring to travel economy? It is well worth studying this subject.The first part introduces tourism and infectious diseases. Looking back to some kinds of infectious diseases all over the world, analyzing the way the diseases infected and the chances to infect diseases easily during travel, the article explains that the development of tourism and the popularity of infectious diseases have extremely close relations. Various tourism speeds up the prevalence and scatter of infectious diseases, which spread very quickly, widely and can make tremendous disasters.The second part discusses the effect caused by infectious diseases to tourism. Take "SARS" for example, comparing the entering-country tourists, the entering-country and staying-overnight tourists, the place where tourists come from and the foreign exchange income, we can see clearly the gigantic effect.The third part introduces how to deal with the disaster which infectious diseases make to tourism during the development of tourism and how to cut down the effect infectious diseases make to travel economy. This article puts forwards some methods below: 1,strengthening the prophylaxis and treatment of infectious diseases;2, the crisis management to sudden tour accident;3, setting up prophylaxis medical system;4, constructing strong national creative medical science system;5, perfecting our government web station;6, establishing travel agent insurrance;7, founding tourism surprising and administering system;8, building tour information internet and electrical bussiness;9, strengthening organization construction which work for tour study and intensifying the duty of tourism organization.The fourth part is the summary of the whole article.The creative point: 1, According to theory, the prophylaxis and treatment theory should be brought into tourism study system to discover the way to prevent the diseases in tourism;to expend the view of tourism economy; to enrich the methods in tour medical science. Consequently, we can a... |
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