Essay On Accessible Tourism

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1 Introduction
With the growing awareness of the rights of disabilities intourism and travel sector as well as government, accessible tourism becomes one of the potential trends of tourism in future. Disabilities refer to "people who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments".(The UN Convention on the Right of Person with Disabilities, 2006); while accessible Tourism is known as Barrier-free Tourism. According to the European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT) in 2009,accessible tourism means a form of tourism with servicesand facilities including physical environment, information, communication and transportation forthe ease of people who have special needsin their enjoyment of leisure time without any barriers. Furthermore, accessible tourism covers information such as gathering and accommodation. However, since governments are still struggling with accessible facilities, there is still a long path for accessible tourism to go.
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The efforts can be observed through the regulations concerned and enacted by the Austrian government. However, suppliers are far behind in meeting the standards in view of high costs and lack of recognition. On the other hand, due to the lack of accessibility facilities and insufficientinformation, disabled people do not intended to travel more frequently. It is known that development of accessible tourism in Austria involves investments of infrastructures and additional service provisions, which may be deemed as extra financial inputs from the service providers. Having said that, it is considered as worthy since the investment may bring about great potential benefits from assessable tourism in turn, not only from local customers of Austria, but also from worldwide

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