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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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A framework for inclusive digital storytelling for cultural tourism in Thailand
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for inclusive digital storytelling to increase diversity and motivation for cultural tourism in Thailand is presented, where the authors adopt digital storytelling as the guideline for creating storytelling.
Flying with impairments: improving airline practices by understanding the experiences of people with disabilities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an understanding of the air travel experiences of people with disabilities and draw implications for improving airline management practices based on applying a social approach to disability to the airline sector.
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Understanding the Discrimination Experienced by Customers with Disabilities in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: The Case of Seoul in South Korea
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the discrimination of customers with disabilities in the tourism and hospitality industries by an ethnographic approach, and the findings were categorized into seven sections, depending on the type of lack of understanding of customers who have disabilities.
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Gaining Access at Historic Tourism Sites: A Narrative Case Study of Physical Accessibility at Glamis Castle
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Tourist mobility and destination competitiveness .
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that science consists of the relationship between facts, and statistics is not an exception, and support multicausality is supported by the linearity principle according to which the more is the better and if linearity is lost on observations, it is retrieved by means of operational tricks or, what's worse, it are ignored so as to generate elegant but obliterating explanatory and forecast models.
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Leisure of disabled tourists: barriers to participation
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