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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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Towards strategic intent: Perceptions of disability service provision amongst hotel accommodation managers
Simon Darcy,Shane Pegg +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors sought to ascertain the perceptions of managers in the accommodation sector towards disability service provision with a view to identifying any current service gaps or failings, and found that five key themes that had not been previously discussed in the literature were: inclusive attitudinal approach; safety; the responsibility of people with a disability to communicate their needs to the hotel; perceptions of accessible rooms by the general public; and operational processes.
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Dimensions of lodging guest satisfaction among guests with mobility challenges: A mixed-method analysis of web-based texts
TL;DR: This first attempt to integrate quantitative and qualitative web content analysis with Penalty-Reward Contrast Analysis captures the real-life tourist service evaluation criteria with improved accuracy and reliability and enables a thorough and efficient exploitation of customer-generated web textual data.
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Disabled travel: not easy, but doable
TL;DR: This article conducted a series of qualitative interviews with mobility-disabled tourists, the purpose of which was to engage disabled tourists in conversations based on their reflective enactment of their own touristic endeavour.
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Is the Turkish tourism industry ready for a disabled customer's market?: The views of hotel and travel agency managers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the ability of the Turkish tourism industry to meet the needs of disabled people by surveying the views of hotel and travel agency managers in Turkey, and a questionnaire-type survey was conducted; a total of 252 hotels and 168 travel agencies took part.
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Understanding the complex interplay between tourism, disability and environmental contexts
TL;DR: The Process of Becoming Travel Active emerged as a six-stage process, intricately related to the personal/disability context and the environmental/travel context, explaining the complex interplay between tourism, disability and environmental context.
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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
TL;DR: In this article, the authors categorize the barriers that disproportionately affect disabled tourists as intrinsic barriers (resulting primarily from the tourist's own levels of cognitive, physical, and psychological function); environmental barriers (consisting of externally imposed limitations); and interactive barriers, resulting from the reciprocal interaction between the tourist and the immediate milieu).
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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.