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Wildlife Tourism's Six Factor Problem
Wildlife tourism faces a six factor problem in providing medical care for tourists. People traveling on safaris are increasingly older with more medical conditions and are therefore more likely to get sick or hurt. Parks and reserves where safaris take place have no formal medical infrastructure to handle health issues. Camps hosting tourists are small and remote, requiring a decentralized model of care. Getting help or evacuating those who are injured or ill takes a significant amount of time due to the remote locations of parks. These six factors - medical conditions of tourists, lack of infrastructure, small camp size, remote locations, need for decentralized support, and evacuation challenges - create an unsolvable problem for providing consistent medical services to tourists through traditional strategies.
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Wildlife Tourism's Six Factor Problem
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- 3. “Sustainable Tourism is abouthelping to: “preserve and enhance the beautiful” Gail Grimmett, President, Travel Leaders Group’s Elite Travel Division A group of 7000 travel agencies, the single largest in the USA.
- 4. Responsible Tourism ‘First dono harm. Then do some good.’
- 6. Nathan Layton, 28,stopped breathing within an hour of being bitten at a Wildlife College. He and his girlfriend came here on an adventure. He died because nobody had a BVM or could manually ventilate. That’s at a training college. You can teach a lay person how to ventilate a victim, in under five minutes.
- 7. “this is veryvery sad. as Zambians we should demand for answers from the lodge operators. did they give the tourists instructions on what to do and not to do? where were the guards? safety issues are not taken seriously in our country. no wonder people go over to the Zim side. the elephant should be killed. condolences to the bereaved.”
- 9. But People get sick andthey get hurt They travel older now. They have more medical conditions. Its not unpredictable. Its just People.
- 10. In Parks there is no MedicalInfrastructure
- 11. These factors createan unsolvable problem for urban strategies Safaris involve people and people will get sick and hurt. Contractual relationships create a responsibility to handle medical. Parks have no formal infrastructure therefore no reliable medical services. The staff in camps are non- medical so a system has to be built on laypeople. Camps are small and dispersed requiring a decentralised, cellular model. Parks are remote places so getting help in or people out takes a very long time.