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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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Assessing the value and market attractiveness of the accessible tourism industry in Europe: a focus on major travel and leisure companies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the accessible tourism market potential, alongside the implications of operating in the accessible tourists market and an assessment of major travel and leisure company involvement, and provided a market value forecast using historic data from 2005 and extrapolating this to 2025.
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The voice of tourists with mobility disabilities: insights from online customer complaint websites
Song Ee Kim,Xinran Lehto +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a study of service failure issues for disabled tourists has been conducted by analyzing disabled travelers' complaints reported through online customer complaint websites, where a total of 316 customer complaints were collected and analyzed utilizing a modified procedure of the Critical Incident Technique (CIT).
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Planes, trains and wheelchairs in the bush: Attitudes of people with mobility-disabilities to enhanced motorised access in remote natural settings
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which those with mobility-disabilities desire enhanced access to natural areas was explored, and significant differences were found between the two groups in terms of their desire for greater access and also in how they view the impacts of such development.
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Website accessibility in the tourism industry: an analysis of official national tourism organization websites around the world.
TL;DR: The accessibility of official national tourism organization websites of countries around the world is analyzed to establish possible common patterns and rankings of those with exemplary practice through to those with the highest number of issues, to provide a quasi-indicator of inclusive organizational practice for online accessibility.
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Behavioral intentions of disabled tourists for the use of peer-to-peer accommodations: an application of fsQCA.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the causal models that predict disabled tourists' behavioral intentions to use peer-to-peer (p2p) accommodations and found that p2p customers are not limited to travelers with low income levels.
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Leisure of disabled tourists: barriers to participation
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