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• Flight Sickness

  "Flight sickness is caused by a reduction of the oxygen content in the body due to the high atmospheric pressure of high altitude, which reduces to amount of breathing oxygen in the air. A diagnosis of flight sickness is made when various symptoms, varying from one person to another, are observed. When an unacclimated individual rises rapidly to 2,000 metres or more, in a period of one to six hours afterward (a times even after a day or more), or following a night of sleep,  the person suffers from a severe headache in the area of the forehead, vomits and feels tired. The symptoms are not unlike those of the flu, only without muscular pain and fever. The condition also causes irritability. If the symptoms worsen as a result of proper treatment, the patient may even slip into a coma."

• Half board

  "Accommodation in which one meal a day is included in the price of a room."

• Hotel Chain

  "Several hotels belonging to the same organisation. Chains such as these tend to extend worldwide and have their own operating systems."

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• Maître d´

  "In the hotel dining area and in some restaurants, the maître´ d is in charge of the waiters and oversees the table service."

• Malaria

  "Malaria is an illness that is caused by protozoans of the Plasmodium genus, and which is transmitted to humans who are bitten by mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus. These mosquitoes only bite from dusk to dawn. Of the four types of plasmodium that can infect humans, the falciparum strain is the most aggressive and causes the most complications. Plasmodia  are found in tropical and some subtropical areas."

• Mangrove swamp

  "A mangrove swamp is an area of vegetation in the coastal regions of tropical areas, where mangroves are common. The term is also used when referring to similar terrain."

• Tourism Sector Conference

  "A multilateral organisation comprised of the administrative Tourism Office heads of the various autonomous communities and the those of the central government, the aim of which is to coordinate public Tourism policy and discuss criteria as well joint plans."
  

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• Wholesaler

  "A wholesaler is a travel agency that creates tourism products and offers them to users through retail travel agencies."

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