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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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Emerging trends regarding accessible accommodation in Dubai luxury hotels.
Stephanie Morris,Scholah Kazi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determine how luxury hotel operators in Dubai interpret the current disability laws in the region, and further how they currently provide accessible accommodation to disabled tourists, based on data collected using document analysis of UAE Federal Law 29 (English translation), Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing Hotel Classification Manual, some five star hotels internal guidelines and semi-structured interviews with 12 hotel representatives.
Event Planner Sensitivity to the Needs of Individuals with Visual Disability at Meetings and Events
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the experiences of individuals who are blind and have visual impairments at events and meetings and found that many obstacles to accessing meetings including: discrimination, a paucity of accessible features, and accessibility features that are not truly accessible for consumers.
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Senior tourism in Italy: the role of disability and socioeconomic characteristics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data drawn from a large Italian population survey, "Perspectives on daily life", and provided empirical evidence on the probability of undertaking tourism in older age and the role of personal charachteristics acting as triggers and barriers to tourism.
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Accessibility in Inclusive Tourism? Hotels Distributed through Online Channels
TL;DR: In this article, a descriptive analysis has been carried out with more than 31,000 hotels from the online travel agency Booking.com, in the 100 most touristic cities in the world.
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The Confucian Paradigm of Man: A Sociological View
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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.