Thanks for sharing the article. The survey results give us an hints on the different motivation and evaluation points of travellers with accessibility needs. If you repeat this type of questionnaire periodically and, if the number/rate or response of people with disabilities increases from the current 4%, it means that the city has improved…

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Sorry for jumping in so late. I absolutely agree with the points made here. What a great conversation, indeed!

I can imagine that useful quantitative information will be hard to find. At Visit Flanders, when doing a quality-oriented survey, we usually add a question: “Do you, or any of your travel companions, experience impairments or…

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Eleonora, Chris, thanks a lot for the comments and insights. I now know measurement is a big issue and there is a lot of work. Please share your thoughts if you find any new situation / new ideas on this subject.

Eleonora, you are right in the points you make, completely agree with you.

From my perspective and experience here in the UK Government needs to show leadership and have ambition, this ambition has to be complete and address every stakeholder in the tourism value chain. Hence here we have Government announcing the bold ambition to make the…

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I totally agree on the need to understand which part of accessible tourism is making money and which prt should be the object of government support or be managed by non profit organisations. When I decided to create an actual for profit company, it was also a political statement as in « this is not a charity project for the disabled people » but… Read more