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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

antidote. it being information. I definitely connected this article with my inquiry as it

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

Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the C.D.C.

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

references from different sources.

Noble, LM, et al. The Impact of Injection Anxiety on Education of Travelers about Common

Travel Risks. Journal of Travel Medicine, vol. 21, no. 2, 2014.

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

attending pre-travel consulations, whether injection anxiety affects memory of

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

on their travels. The authors: Lorraine M. Noble, Lorna Farquharson, Niamh A.

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

Tropical Medicine respectively and Ron having a MD from University College of

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

from several different travelers who participated in the study.

Sanju, Unjore. Excitement or Anxiety? A Case Study of Indian Postgraduate Sojourners at

University of Nottingham. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, vol. 42, no. 5,

2014, pp. 557567.

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

conducted with the students involved in the case study.

Reisinger, Yvette, and Felix Mavondo. Travel Anxiety and Intentions to Travel Internationally:

Implications of Travel Risk Perception. Journal of Travel Research Journal of Travel

Research, vol. 43, no. 3, 2016, pp. 212225.

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

relocating to those specific countries. Yvette Reisinger is the director of Tourism

Research International in Massachusetts and Felix Mavondo is the associate professor

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

during the study.