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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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Accessibility of travel and hospitality services as perceived by travelers with mobility impairments.
Yeon Woo Park,Shu Cole,Ye Zhang +2 more
TL;DR: Five dimensions of accessibility in travel and hospitality services as perceived by customers with mobility impairments are suggested: access to physical features, access to service procedures, ease of access toPhysical features, upkeep of accessible physical and service features, and access to accurate and reliable information.
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Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the identification of structural constraints and negotiation strategies that influence the decision and participation to travel for people with physical disabilities, using a qualitative methodology, with the analysis and discussion of the information collected through in-depth interviews.
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Empirical Analysis on Domestic Travel Activities of Workers -Focused on Domestic Travel Numbers, Days and Expenditures-
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the domestic travel activities by job characteristic and derived implications to improve the domestic tourism by using 2010 Korea National Tourism Survey data(Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism).
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The Intersection of Technology, Accessible Tourism and Tourists With Intellectual Disabilities: Proposing a Novel Conceptual Framework
TL;DR: In this article , the experiences of tourists with intellectual disabilities using travel technologies, and to identify determinants and deterrents, were investigated. But the authors focused on tourists with disabilities and did not consider the voices of people with disabilities in the forum data.
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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.