Tourism for all. Educating to foster accessible accommodation

Freund, Daniela; Iñesta, Anna; Castelló, Montserrat

doi:10.1016/j.jhlste.2022.100370

Cited by 7 publications

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“…First, service providers need to be more knowledgeable about autism. Awareness can reshape the public’s and hospitality workers’ attitudes toward autistic people while also reducing stigma (Freund et al , 2022). We examined autistic individuals’ travel-related challenges and needs.…”

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Family travel among people with autism: challenges and support needs

Zhao

Shi

et al. 2023

IJCHM

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Purpose People with autism and their families struggle with travel because of its complexity. This study aims to promote travel participation by exploring the travel needs and patterns of people with autism and their families. Design/methodology/approach A total of 28 participants were interviewed. Data were analyzed via constructivist grounded theory. Findings People with autism and their families displayed five travel patterns: mutual support, relatives’ visitation, independent travel, expanded socialization and package tours. These patterns were adopted in a stepwise fashion as the autistic individuals’ abilities improved. The travel challenges and support needs of Chinese autistic people and their families were identified. Practical implications The findings can inform accessibility tourism, promote an understanding of autistic people’s tourism activities among the public and industry marketers and offer strategic guidance about family travel for this population. Originality/value This effort responds to a call to investigate disability-related issues. The study evaluated the travel behavior of people with autism and their families, from a developmental perspective, presenting a new angle in research on accessibility tourism.

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“…Autistic people may also face barriers accessing accommodation services (Freund et al , 2019). Few travel practitioners have explored the needs of autistic people and their families (Cerdan and Binkhorst, 2019), despite advocacy to train practitioners to improve their reception of such travelers (Freund et al , 2022).…”

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Family travel among people with autism: challenges and support needs

Zhao

Shi

et al. 2023

IJCHM

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“…Main theme articles included research that focused only on the transformative process of tourism, whereas articles classified as having secondary topics related to the transformation process in tourism, met one of the following criteria: (a) the transformation process in tourism was highlighted as one of the outcomes or motivations of the main topic that was not initially thought to be related to transformative tourism; (b) the transformation process in tourism was mentioned or joined to other topics discussed in the article, thus forming connections with other domains. Some of the sub-theme articles included the importance of self-love in tourism as an emotion that could lead to more meaningful and transformative experiences [37], or the linkages to hopeful and social tourism [210][211][212][213], the hero's journey as a tool for advertising transformative experiences [214], transformation as a path towards innovation in tourism [215], the transformative potential of the existential wish to search or manifest a person's values and identity [216], or even an exhaustive research on experiences where there was a light shed on transformative experiences [128]. The current state of balance in topic coverage in TT articles is represented below (Table 12), however, a turnaround is expected in the upcoming years as the focus shifts in the favour of more in-depth analyses on the nature of TT, thus enhancing the main theme literature.…”

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Calibrating Evolution of Transformative Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Transformative tourism (TT) has been gaining a lot of attention over the past few years due to its power to transform both the individual and the world we live in, in a positive way. Although presently consisting of a plethora of studies, transformative tourism lacks the lens of a bibliometric approach to track its growth in a more objective and quantitative manner. In this article, a total of 250 publications were analysed using several bibliometric performance metrics, science mapping techniques, such as citation analysis, co-occurrence, and co-authorship, as well as enrichment procedures. By combining these methods, the study identifies the most prolific journals, reference studies in the field, key authors, collaboration patterns, geographic distribution, preferred methods, major research topics, as well as an overall research timeline in this area of study. Findings suggest that transformative tourism could become the heart of tourism in the upcoming years as it begins to take deeper roots through new junctions and discoveries, appealing to more researchers and practitioners, with the literature on TT thus gaining momentum. This paper contributes to fill a research gap and capture the evolution of the fast-growing concept of transformative tourism using bibliometric analysis. The article provides useful insights as well as further research directions for both researchers and tourism practitioners interested in this field of study.

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How do sensory features of places impact on spatial exploration of people with autism? A user study

Cena

Mauro

Rapp

2023

Inf Technol Tourism

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Autism is characterized by peculiar sensory processing. The sensory features of a place may have a crucial impact on the decision a person with autism makes when choosing what to visit in a tourist experience. We present a map-based mobile app, conceived for people with mid to high-functioning autism, which exploits sensory features of places to filter the information displayed and suggest locations that may be suitable for their idiosyncratic needs. The mobile app also exploits the crowdmapping paradigm in order to gather these features from the community of users, since they are not publicly available. We describe the results of a composite user evaluation of the app, made up of a task experiment, a field study, and an online questionnaire, which aims to understand (i) whether the explicit presentation of sensory information impacts the decision of going to a specific place, (ii) if the crowdmapping functionality is used and how and (iii) how people with autism navigate the mobile app. The results confirm the importance of the sensory features for people with autism in the decision to go to a specific place. Moreover, they show that crowdmapping may be a good solution to collect such features, but should be integrated with other methods. Finally, the results show that the preferred modality of exploring information about places is by using the map.

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Tourism for all. Educating to foster accessible accommodation

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Family travel among people with autism: challenges and support needs

Family travel among people with autism: challenges and support needs

Calibrating Evolution of Transformative Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis

How do sensory features of places impact on spatial exploration of people with autism? A user study

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