“The rule is that we need around one day for every hour of time zone we cross, so that means that after a six-hour transatlantic flight we would need around six days for our cycles to be fully re-synchronised with the local time.” Alves of MedAire, an ‘International SOS’ company that’s the world’s leading medical and travel security risk service, explains to TheHealthy: “Hormone secretion, sleepiness, alertness, and hunger sensation, among other functions, depend on our internal clock. The science behind it is too complex for here, but as experts like doctor Paulo M. Or is that ‘unfortunately’?) ears popping toothaches dry skin and bad breath – to name a few – perhaps most undervalued is its effect on our circadian rhythm.įar from sounding like a B-grade reggae cover band begging for pub gigs on some obscure Caribbean island, tinkering with our ‘body clock’ is a dark art best left alone. That is, while online sources like TheHealthy lists a range of hazards for air travel including: low oxygen making you feel sleepy or ‘headachy’ feet swelling and possible blood clots, dehydration, shifts in cabin pressure making people ‘gassy’ (no explanation needed there, fortunately. Yet, what if that wasn’t the case in future?Īside from being ‘war-story’ boasting for seasoned jetsetters and travellers to those whom meet and greet them at the airport, travel fatigue can have some serious health implications if not managed properly. If you’ve ever flown long distances in the past – sometimes for some that’s even within just their region or country – the novelty of fatigue and ‘jetlag’ wears off pretty fast. And it all may come down something as simple as … sleep. What was once a burgeoning segment of the industry itself, arguably the sexy and glamorous side of the bus-travel experience, took a hit from the global fallout of planes grounded and advance bookings cancelled virtually overnight.įast forward about 18 months and while few would say the pandemic is over (and there are more than enough out there saying that it was never meant to be), the industry in pockets has shown promising ‘green shoots’ of undergrowth that gives much hope for the future of coach travel, as it picks itself up from the floor, dusts itself off and rises to the challenge once more.Ī long shot? Maybe. It’s no secret that the long-distance coach tourism sector – not just in Australia and New Zealand – has taken a shellacking since the Covid-19 outbreak started near 18 months ago. To do so, and if first impressions count, then Marcopolo’s new G8 series of coaches has all the calculations covered. Post-pandemic, coach tourism’s challenge is to woo them back in droves – as well as newcomers en masse. REGULAR coach passengers worldwide might have used that transport mode out of pure necessity, habit, or simply personal choice.
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