Accessibility and inclusive tourism development: Current state and future agenda

B Gillovic, A McIntosh - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Accessibility constitutes one important consideration in the field of scholarship relating to
inclusive tourism development because it is fundamentally about the inclusion of people …

Disabled travel and urban environment: A literature review

X Shen, S Zheng, R Wang, Q Li, Z Xu, X Wang… - … Research Part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
The relationship between urban environment and the travel of people with disabilities has
received scholarly attention. Studies have analyzed disabled travel from multiple …

Competing for the disability tourism market–A comparative exploration of the factors of accessible tourism competitiveness in Spain and Australia

TD Vila, S Darcy, EA González - Tourism Management, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper seeks to address the research question of what factors make a destination
competitive for the accessible tourism market. The research design is based on destination …

Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities

B McKercher, S Darcy - Tourism management perspectives, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstracts This paper proposes a four-tiered hierarchy to understand better the nature and
effects of barriers, constraints and obstacles to travel faced by people with disabilities …

Accessible tourism experiences: the voice of people with visual disabilities

E Devile, E Kastenholz - Social Tourism at the Crossroads, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Our research focuses primarily on the understanding of the engagement in tourist activities
of people with disabilities. Specifically, we intend to analyze the experience of people with …

Contributions of tourism to social inclusion of persons with disability

E Kastenholz, C Eusébio, E Figueiredo - Disability & Society, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Tourism, although a relevant part of the modern lifestyle in economically more developed
countries, is even in these countries not accessible to all, with particular barriers existing for …

Digital accessibility of smart cities-tourism for all and reducing inequalities: tourism agenda 2030

E Fernández-Díaz, C Jambrino-Maldonado… - Tourism …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose There is widespread agreement that the tourism sector should address the issue of
sustainability. The purpose of this study is to analyze the digital accessibility of the cities …

Critical elements in accessible tourism for destination competitiveness and comparison: Principal component analysis from Oceania and South America

P Natalia, RA Clara, D Simon, G Noelia, A Barbara - Tourism Management, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper seeks to construct an exploratory nationally comparative tourism accessibility
measure (TAI) through developing an objective set of metrics in the spirit and intent of the …

The 'why'and 'what for'of participation in tourism activities: travel motivations of people with disabilities

A Moura, C Eusébio, E Devile - Current Issues in Tourism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study is to identify the motivations that lead people with disabilities (PwD) to
make the decision to participate in tourism and to ascertain whether there are differences in …

Tourism and disability in Italy. Limits and opportunities

M Agovino, M Casaccia, A Garofalo… - Tourism management …, 2017 - Elsevier
As society develops, the status of tourism changes from being socially desirable to being a
necessity. No less so is this for those who have various physical and other disabilities. This …