Professional Documents
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Krishnamurthy Jayaraman
Debra Jizi
UWRT 1104
10 November 2017
Annotated Bibliography
KUGEL, SETH. The Antidote to Travel Anxiety: Information. New York Times, vol. 165, no.
57156, 2016.
There are many factors for risk in foreign countries, that's why choosing between
different travel locations is difficult. This article written by Seth Kugel and published by
The New York Times serves to talk about a solution to travel anxiety, which they call an
involves planning ahead by researching about the different locations that someone may
travel to. The antidote as talked about in the article is information, which serves to state
that research is essential to prevent yourself from making the wrong decision. The article
gives an example like the Center for Disease Control and Prevention which cautioned
pregnant women from traveling to areas with high quantity of mosquitoes to prevent the
spread of the Zika virus. Another thing I learned is that numbers are misreported a lot of
times. It is stated that 5000 cases of microcephaly were reported in Brazil in 2015, but
when the government examined 1000 of those cases, 800 were misdiagnoses. Which
means that a third of the cases were most probably false information, which shows that
people take these fake details very seriously into their considerations when traveling. This
explains a lot more about travel anxiety when considering entities such as health risk, that
big names like Zika might entangle the minds of travelers but fail to understand the other
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very dangerous other health risks that exists, such as "eating fast food, walking under a
crane and crossing busy streets, not to mention drinking water tainted with lead"(New
York Times 3) The alternative solution as provided by the article is to instead of holding
off on the trip itself is to take a different approach to the trip. Maybe "spending less time
in big European cities and more in small towns"(New York Times 3). Seth Kugel has a
Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy school and started his journalism career
by freelancing for The New York Times City section, he then wrote about food up until
he started to write for the Travel section of the Times. He quotes from sources such as the
Lee, O, and JE Oh. The Impact of Virtual Reality Functions of a Hotel Website on Travel
Anxiety. Cyberpsychology & Behavior : the Impact of the Internet, Multimedia and
Virtual Reality on Behavior and Society, vol. 10, no. 4, 2007, pp. 5846.
When traveling to different countries, tourists can be unsure about accommodations in the
foreign land. This case study talks about the implementation of Virtual Reality into a
hotel's website in order to relieve a travelers' anxiety. Ever since the creation of the
internet, the idea of travelling has become a thought that is easily researched, you can
now find a perfect, inexpensive hotel in a country of your choosing by typing keys and
click buttons. When people are travelling, many always have anxiety about where they
are going, this is mainly due to thoughts about well-being. The internet helps solve this
issue by giving reviews for different accommodations, but even this isn't enough for some
people. So one hotel took it to the next level and made a virtual reality simulation of the
hotel. This connects with my inquiry as anxiety is a reason people stay in their homes and
don't go on a vacation. Having these options to analyze the different areas through
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something like VR is a step in the right direction and will encourage more people to take
up those accommodations. This hotel in South Korea even designated the VR tour to be
timed in different areas including the restaurant, the guest tour and a longer tour of the
exterior of the hotel. It definitely knocked the expectation of how the touring would work
as even though the hotel looks good with VR, what about the attractions outside? Seeing
that there's also a tour outside the hotel talking about the different buildings nearby shows
me that this hotel definitely wants to invite more tourists no matter what. Ook Lee has a
Ph.D from the the College of Information and Communications at Hayang University in
Seoul. Ji-Eun Oh has a Masters from the Department of Tourism, Hansei University in
Gunpo. The study was helped by a research fund from Hayang University and has many
Noble, LM, et al. The Impact of Injection Anxiety on Education of Travelers about Common
People may be scared of travelling to foreign countries, but there are also people who are
scared of getting injections before going to one. Being scared of injections could impact a
travelers health while on a trip. This study conducted by Lorraine M. Noble, Lorna
Farquharson, Niamh A. O'Dwyer, and Ron H. Behrens will study the anxiety of those
information learnt and whether doctors can recognize this form of anxiety. I always
assume travel anxiety would be about leaving the country due to homesickness or fear of
a certain aspect of the country, this however is one thing I never realized was a thing, but
makes a lot of sense to me. I also have a fear of injections but I never realized that having
this fear would lead to someone refusing to leave the country or forgetting essential
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information. This is definitely something new that I learned from reading this article. This
research can definitely help pre-travel consultation meetings. Maybe they can extend
meetings to be several days long, the first day being the day injections are given so they
are out of the way. That way information is easier for travelers to understand and retain
O'Dwyer, and Ron H. Behrens all have doctorate degrees, Lorraine having a Ph.D from
the University College of London, Lorna and Niamh having Doctorates in Clinical
Psychology from the Royal University of London and London School of Hygiene and
London Hospital. They got information from the clinic staff at the Hospital for Tropical
Diseases Travel Clinic and F.Nicholson at Trailfinders Clinic London as well as data
University of Nottingham. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, vol. 42, no. 5,
People who move to a new country either experience euphoria or anxiety depending on a
variety of factors. Sanju Unjore at the University of Nottingham conducted a case study
which investigated the emotions that Indian postgraduate students experienced when they
had travelled to the UK, this research could be used to develop a model for a cultural
adjustment period for foreigners. My inquiry is about relocation anxiety, and how it may
affect those who wish to pursue a certain goal in a foreign country, this article is a case
study on how relocation affects a control group of people, resulting in either euphoria or
anxiety. I learned about different factors that can also influence a persons decision to
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enter a different country including: weather, cultural diversity, etc. This study also
researched where the emotions of relocation started, and many stated that it started even
before arriving at the country which also explains a lot about how anxiety could affect
our decision making. Sanju Unjore is a graduate from the University of Nottingham and
has written several other case studies similar to this one in the past. This study also cites
multiple other sources, so much so that the pages are covered in citations. The author
incorporates models and statistics from other researchers as well as interviews that he
Reisinger, Yvette, and Felix Mavondo. Travel Anxiety and Intentions to Travel Internationally:
While being a tourist, having a dangerous experience is the last thing on your mind but
these experiences are getting more and more common, such as terrorism, conflicts or
health risks. This article talks about the comparison between attitudes of tourists and the
culture of the area they travel to, analyzing the risk of traveling and anxiety and contrasts
the results between tourist groups. Risk is perceived differently by different people
around the globe based on their attitudes, mainly whether they have anxiety or whether
they are euphoric, it draws a similarity between this article and the article published by
the University of Nottingham. This connects to my inquiry about relocation anxiety and
how people think about all the risks that can happen in a foreign country that could put
them into trouble like terrorism, etc. I feel like there is always risk when entering a
different country, but you should always try to fight the risk and do what you wish to do
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in life. I learned that terrorism and other risks can deter tourists or other travelers from
and deputy head and director of research in the marketing department at Monash
University. Yvette Reisinger has written 2 different novels dedicated to Tourism around
the world. Felix Mavondo has a PhD in Agribusiness as well as several projects and case
studies, this article involves the use of many other sources, being cited at several points