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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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The “unseen” tourism: Travel experience of people with visual impairment
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors employed embodiment theory and sensory compensation theory to examine aspects of the tourism experience from the perspective of visually impaired tourists and identified seven unique types of tourism experience including sensory compensation and barrier-free experiences.
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Seeking a deeper level of responsibility for inclusive (eco)tourism duty and the pinnacle of practice
David A. Fennell,Brian Garrod +1 more
TL;DR: As a form of tourism that aims to be sustainable and, in broader terms, responsible and ethical, ecotourism occupies a peak position in terms of people's understanding of sustainable tourism as discussed by the authors.
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Experiences of Tourists With Intellectual Disabilities: A Phenomenological Approach
TL;DR: This article explored ways in which adults with intellectual disabilities experience tourism and found that tourism provided a sense of normality, encouraged self-efficacy, and strengthened relational connections, and the tourism experience was significant and meaningful to the participants.
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Environmental barriers to tourism development for people with disabilities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the environmental barriers and accessibility of Tehran tourism that affect tourism development for people with physical and motor disabilities and identified transportation facilities as the most prominent barrier of tourism development.
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"The Florence Experience": A multimedia and multisensory guidebook for cultural towns inspired by Universal Design approach.
TL;DR: Despite the limits described in the paper, "The Florence Experience" guidebook is a considerable step forward with respect to the majority of available guidebooks both because it is a unique information tool for disabled and non-disabled people and because it does not only consider the needs of wheelchair users.
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Assessing the Travel-Related Behaviors of the Mobility-Disabled Consumer
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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Travel agents as facilitators or inhibitors of travel: perceptions of people with disabilities.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the perception of people with disabilities towards the effectiveness of travel agents in Hong Kong and found that travel agents are largely deficient in catering to the needs of this specialist market.