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Healthy Travel in 2025: Tips and Wishes from ISTM

Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉


As we welcome 2025, members of the ISTM Executive Board share their hopes for healthier leisure travel in the year ahead. Read on for tips to help you and your loved ones enjoy safer, more productive journeys this year. Be sure to check out additional healthy travel resources at the end of this email.

Gerard Flaherty

Ireland

President



"I wish that all international travellers would have timely access to a travel clinic, staffed by professionals who benefit from the educational opportunities provided by the International Society of Travel Medicine, who provide a comprehensive pre-travel consultation based on an individualised travel health risk assessment. Also, please don't forget travel insurance!"

Anne McCarthy

Canada

President- Elect


"In 2024, global tourism nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels, with travel approaching the heights of 2019. My hope for 2025 is that travel continues to flourish, offering everyone — whether journeying for business, pleasure, or necessity — memorable and healthy experiences. This year, let’s all work to treat each other and the planet with the deserved respect."


Francesca Norman

Spain

Counselor


"Live life to the fullest, travel far, fly high... but safely. 


Prepare well and understand the local health risks to keep your adventures fun and worry-free.


¡Feliz Año 2025 y buen viaje!"

Salim Parker

South Africa

Co Op Voting Member


"To travel is to live," it is said.

A journey of the heart and the steps we tread.

Like a prelude to dance, with time to prepare,

Take your vaccines — travel smart, be aware.


Plan ahead, and seek advice to steer,

Let trusted voices calm your fear.

For as the journey’s treasures unfold,

You’ll find that to live is to travel — that’s gold.


Karen Goraleski

United States

Interim Executive Director


"Be smart: consult a travel medicine professional, get your vaccines, and avoid traveling on a passport nearing expiration.


Be patient: with yourself, crying babies, tired parents, flight crews, TSA, and fellow travelers — everyone is dealing with something, just like you."

Check Out These Related Healthy Travel Resources

ISTM recently released a new fact sheet highlighting insights about the mental and physical health benefits of leisure travel. Inspired by a presentation from ISTM President Gerard Flaherty at the Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine, an episode of ISTM's Travel Unravelled podcast goes in depth about the health benefits of travel.

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