Handbook of Accessible Tourism
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-131448-8 (ISBN)
The Handbook of Accessible Tourism is a crucial resource addressing the need for accessibility in the tourism industry, offering insights, theoretical foundations, and practical strategies to make tourism more accessible.
Combining conceptual and empirical work, the handbook spans various components of the tourism system, considers the experiences of people with different accessibility requirements, and covers a range of geographical settings. It identifies gaps in current knowledge and provides recommendations for future research and innovation, encouraging continuous improvement in accessible tourism.
Featuring 35 chapters, the handbook is organised into three parts:
- Foundations of accessible tourism: explores the evolution of accessible tourism; integrates concepts like leisure constraints theory; covers institutional frameworks, sustainability, information and communications, functionality, disability mobilities, support for carers and friends, and human-animal relations.
- Accessible destinations and tourism experiences: examines practical aspects of making tourism accessible, emphasising interdisciplinary collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and universal design; includes case studies highlighting challenges, opportunities, and the role of technology.
- Designing for accessibility: focuses on making tourism accessible through universal design, transition design, cognitive work analysis, service design, technology, and stakeholder collaboration; addresses the needs of different groups, specific tourism sectors, and the importance of education and training.
- Crucial resource addressing the need for accessibility in the tourism industry
- Offers insights, theoretical foundations, and practical strategies to make tourism more accessible
- Combines conceptual and empirical work that spans various components of the tourism system
- Considers the experiences of people with different accessibility requirements, and covers a range of geographical settings
- Includes case studies highlighting challenges, opportunities, and the role of technology
- Identifies gaps in current knowledge and provides recommendations for future research and innovation, encouraging continuous improvement in accessible tourism
Jillian M. Rickly is Professor of Tourism at the University of Nottingham and the Series Editor for De Gruyter Studies in Tourism. She is a tourism geographer with research interests in authenticity/alienation, mobilities, accessibility, critical animal studies, and sustainability. She is an Associate Editor for Annals of Tourism Research and an editor for Tourism Geographies, Mobilities and Journal of Qualitative Tourism Research.
Brian Garrod is Professor of Marketing at the School of Management, Swansea University. His research interests include sustainable tourism and ecotourism, accessible tourism, heritage tourism and destination marketing. He is founding Co-Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Destination Marketing & Management and Editor-in-Chief of Tourism and Hospitality, as well as being on the editor board of several other prominent academic journals in the tourism field. He has worked as a consultant to the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among other clients at the national, regional and local levels.
Nigel Halpern is Professor of Air Transport and Tourism Management at Kristiania University College in Norway. His main research interests are in accessibility, digital transformation and marketing. He is on the editorial board of several journals including Annals of Tourism Research.
Marcus Hansen is a senior lecturer in tourism & events at Liverpool John Moores University. Marcus teaches and conducts research in relation to tourism and event management. His research interests are particularly around the topics of accessible tourism & events, including travelling with a vision impairment, accessible destination management, creating dementia-friendly destinations and leveraging mega events to deliver accessible outcomes.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | De Gruyter Studies in Tourism ; 14 |
| Zusatzinfo | 36 col. ill., 49 b/w tbl. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 1157 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
| Schlagworte | Accessibility • Disabilities • Diversity • inclusivity • Tourism |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-131448-0 / 3111314480 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-131448-8 / 9783111314488 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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