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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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Current sociological theories and issues in tourism
Erik Cohen,Scott A. Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the broad social trends and specific historical events that recently affected tourism and discuss how the focus of sociological inquiry in tourism studies shifted from earlier discourses of authenticity and the tourist gaze to three novel theoretical approaches, the mobilities paradigm, the performativity approach and actor-network theory (ANT), which reflect a broader meta-theoretical re-orientation in contemporary philosophy and sociology.
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Inherent complexity: Disability, accessible tourism and accommodation information preferences
TL;DR: The results suggest that while sociodemographic variables offered some insight into criteria selection, the most significant explanation for criteria selection and information preferences were the dimensions of disability and level of support needs.
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Inclusive tourism development
Regina Scheyvens,Robin Biddulph +1 more
TL;DR: In the light of growing inequality globally, it is important to consider how to make tourism, one of the world's largest industries, more inclusive as discussed by the authors, and this concern is set in the context of, first, th...
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The embodied tourist experiences of people with vision impairment: management implications beyond the visual gaze.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the embodied tourist experiences of 40 people who are vision impaired and concluded that the tourism industry and community must understand the multi-sensory nature of the tourist experience if quality accessible experiences are to be available for tourists with vision impairment.
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Influences of travel constraints on the people with disabilities’ intention to travel: An application of Seligman’s helplessness theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationships between three inter-related concepts, i.e., travel constraints including its three sub-dimensions, these being intrinsic, environmental, and interactive; learned helplessness; and intention to travel.
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