Health Ailments: What Tourists in India are Prone to and the Remedies.A Study Based on Tourists who Visited Kerala from January to December 2019

Abstract

Background: India is a country in South East Asia with a vast and wide variety of geography and culture.

To experience India is something magical. The number of international tourists visiting India have increased

considerably in this decade when in comparison with last few decades. Tourism has become one of the major

sources of income for the development of the country. Changes occurred in the world scenario on behalf of

tourism have led to the increased concern in health dimension related to it. The risks faced by tourists during

the visit to tropical destinations like India are very high. Travelers are advised to avoid risks in health by

the WHO which plays a prominent role in sketching out frequent health issues faced by individuals while

travelling internationally.

Objectives: To study the health issues among tourists visiting India. Identify the major causes of these

health ailments. To check out the precautions should be adopted by while being in the country inorder to

avoid health risks.. And finally to analyze the remedies which can be given to the tourists to avoid these

issues and to make the trip an ever remembering one.

Methodology: A survey has been conducted among the tourists who visited India from January 2019 to

December 2019. The tourists were given questionnaire to get their opinion and experiences regarding health.

Results: The basis for the assessment were the responses shown by the participants in the survey .The

survey was conducted among 40 international tourists. Among them 10 had not come across any disease

during their trip. Diarrhea was reported to 13 people of survey population. Dengue was reported for 5

people .Malaria was reported to 4 people and hepatitis for 3. Finally, typhoid for 2 of the participants who

participated in the survey.

Conclusion:: This assessment gives a detailed description about the health issues encountered by the tourists

because of their lack of control over food habits. Most of them were affected with diseases due to their

sudden change into spicy food eaters and food tasting from cheap hotels and places which are nearer to

slums with polluted water wells.