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TRAVELING WITH A DISABILITY More than an Access Issue
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In this article, a qualitative study was conducted employing indepth interviews and focus groups to explore the tourism experiences of individuals with mobility or visual impairments, and the results revealed that they experience five different stages in the process of becoming travel active: personal, re-connection, tourism analysis, physical journey, and experimentation and reflection.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 2004-10-01. It has received 319 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Accessible tourism & Tourism.read more
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Enhancing the hospitality customer experience of families with children on the autism spectrum disorder
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Smooth Sailing? Autoethnography of Recreational Travel by a Blind Person
TL;DR: An autoethnographic study of an independent blind traveller, Kate, recounts her preparation for a 28-day cruise and then her experience onboard the ship, providing a deeply personal account of the barriers that she faced and the skills and tools that she used to overcome these.
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An application of the virtual reality 360° concept to the Great Zimbabwe monument
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Barriers to Participation in Tourism in the Disabled
Krzysztof Kaganek,Tadeusz Ambroży,Dariusz Mucha,Adam Jurczak,A. Bornikowska,Andrzej Ostrowski,Renata Janiszewska,Teresa Mucha +7 more
TL;DR: Of all the determinants analysed in the study, the perception of barriers to participation in tourism most often depended on the subjects’ degree of disability, and the greatest and smallest numbers of barriers were reported by individuals with severe disabilities and those who had large families, respectively.
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Reframing the experiences of travellers with mobility impairments: Enhancing the leisure constraints model
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative, interview-based study of constraints and facilitators experienced by travellers with mobility impairments is presented, which highlights the importance of other individuals who both encourage and discourage participation (people), the role played by the physical environment, and the significance of access to monetary resources (payment).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a survey of a cross-section of mobility-disabled consumers and found that disability relates to environmental criteria, accessible criteria, and activities criteria and that those with more severe disabilities travel differently and for different reasons.
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Leisure of disabled tourists: barriers to participation
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