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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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The sensory experience of visitors with hearing impairment in Hong Kong Wetland Park based on spatial sensory mapping and self-reported textual analysis
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the multi-sensory experience of visitors with hearing impairment in Hong Kong Wetland Park through spatial mapping of their self-reported positive and negative sensory stimuli, and expression of the overall experience.
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The Readiness of Tourist Sites to Receive Tourists with Limited Mobility: The Case of Jerash – Jordan
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Accessibility as a Competitive Advantage of a Tourism Destination—Opportunities for Slovakia
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the degree of adjustment of the tourism offerings for physically disabled visitors in Slovakia and found out the connection between the accessibility of tourism facilities and the destinations' attendance.
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In European social model comparison of legislation regarding in the European Union and regulation in Turkey of the disabled tourism Sosyal Avrupa modeli çerçevesinde Avrupa Birliği’ndeki engelli turizmine ilişkin yasal düzenlemelerin Türkiye’deki yasal düzenlemelerle karşılaştırılması
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the European Union legislation and Turkey's tourism market with disabilities and made suggestions to get more shares in the tourism market for people with disabilities in the EU and Turkey.
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Social Responsibility in Adventure Tourism: Analysis of Companies in the Central Region of Portugal
TL;DR: In this paper, an online survey was developed and sent to 451 adventure tourism companies from the central region of Portugal, with the purpose of analysing if the activities and services offered are adequately adapted to the audience that makes up accessible tourism.
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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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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.