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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.
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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.

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The accessibility of virtual residency interviews: the good, the bad, the solutions

TL;DR: The accessibility of virtual residency interviews: the good, the bad, the solutions L’accessibilité des entrevues virtuelles pour les programmes de résidence : le bon, the mauvais, les solutions
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Innovative practice in accessible and inclusive tourism

TL;DR: This article will share a collaboration of international occupational therapists for inclusive tourism and describe implications for the broader occupational therapy community.

Family Travel Experiences When One Member Has a Developmental Disability

TL;DR: Findings from this preliminary study supported the hypotheses that individuals with developmental disabilities do travel and that they have unique needs which, if addressed, can enhance their travel experiences.

Konaklama i̇şletmeleri̇ni̇n engelli̇ler i̇çi̇n olanaklari ve yöneti̇ci̇leri̇n görüşleri̇: kuşadasi örneği̇

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have discussed the effect of isletmelerin in the context of the Turkish economy and its role in the development of the economy. But they did not discuss the role of the latter in the construction process.

Disability and Tourism: A Bibliography

TL;DR: In this paper, the bibliography is divided into five sections as follows: 1 Honours, Masters and PhD Theses 2 Market research reports 3 Academic refereed journal articles, texts and conference proceedings; 4 Government policy/reports and third sector reports; 5 Complete alphabetical listing, which includes all of the above as well as non-refereed journal and newspaper articles, destination guides and personal accounts of travelling with a disability.
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The Confucian Paradigm of Man: A Sociological View

TL;DR: In this paper, the structural pattern of Chinese attitudes and behavior by analyzing the Confucian paradigm of man is discussed, which is a common feature of Chinese people and has been unexplored in theoretical analyses.
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Chinese Culture and Mental Health

TL;DR: How are minor mental health problems perceived by management and mitigation of mental health issues of cultural issues in mental health welcome to usq eprints chinese culture and mental health sciencedirect.
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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.
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