If you’re staying entirely in urban areas — city centres, tourist districts, urban hotels — your risk is minimal. TBE is primarily a woodland and rural disease. The issue is that many city break travellers end up taking a day trip to the countryside, a forest walk, or a rural excursion without thinking of it as a risk activity. If there’s any chance of time outdoors in forested or rural areas, vaccination is worth considering. Not sure? Call us and we’ll talk it through.