The Design of Disease Monitoring System for Chinese Outbound Tourism: A Discussion from Public Management Perspective

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10.2991/emtc-14.2014.62How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese outbound tourism, communicable disease, disease monitoring system

Abstract

Over the past decade, China has been one of the fastest-growing tourism source markets in the world. The volume of Chinese outbound travelers has grown from 10 million in 2000 to 83 million in 2012. However, the growth of outbound tourists increases the likelihood of the spread of communicable diseases which significantly influence tourism industry. The evidences can be seen from the Foot-Mouth Disease in UK and SARS in China. This paper proposes a framework of disease monitoring system for outbound tourism by analyzing the direction of tourists flow, the transmission of information flow, and the connection between information flow and tourists flow. In addition, the necessary factors that ensure a successful operation of the disease monitoring system are discussed.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Guan Jing-Jing
AU  - Xia Ming
AU  - Ayeh Julian-K.
PY  - 2014/04
DA  - 2014/04
TI  - The Design of Disease Monitoring System for Chinese Outbound Tourism: A Discussion from Public Management Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Economic Management and Trade Cooperation
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 370
EP  - 376
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/emtc-14.2014.62
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