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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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Loss and travel: a review of literature and current understandings
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the tourism literature to ascertain how loss is conceptualized and understood in relation to its influence on travel is presented, highlighting that for some, loss can prompt positive reflection of their own mortality, existence and purpose which may reshape their travel experiences.
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Should I Stay or Can I Go? Accessible Tourism and Mountain Huts in Gran Paradiso National Park
TL;DR: In this article , the authors assess how tourists with physical handicaps or special needs are considered in a very specific kind of accommodation facility: the mountain hut, and the results underline both strong and critical points.
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Studying abroad inclusively: Reflections by college students with and without intellectual disability.
TL;DR: Using open-coding qualitative techniques, an inclusive study abroad group’s daily reflective journals during a study abroad trip to London and Dublin revealed three shared categories: personal development, bonding/social inclusion, and learning from English and Irish adults with intellectual disabilities.
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Rethinking Consumer Agency in Tourism Research
TL;DR: In this paper , tourist agency is conceptualized as a product of intersectional and institutional forces, accentuated by spatiality and temporality, and a parsimonious typology of tourist agency consisting of Unconstrained, Stigmatized, Constrained and Negotiated agencies.
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Examining the perceptions of mobility-impaired travelers: an analysis of service expectations, evaluations, and travel barriers.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the tourism experiences of mobility-impaired individuals, their evaluations and expectations from tourism service providers, and their satisfaction with the services provided, and found that health is not the main barrier to travel; instead, income is one of the most important factors affecting the travel patterns of the mobility impaired.
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Travel agents as facilitators or inhibitors of travel: perceptions of people with disabilities.
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