If I can help or support you in any way, please let me know, especially if it would be helpful to be directly in touch via email and if you ever wanted to have a chat, I would be more than happy to do so. I was one of a number of Govt Champions appointed by the UK Govt to represent sectors to improve opportunities for disabled people,…

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Thanks for the broad view on this subject. Let me think further on the better way of the “measurement”.

I understand what you say about the growth in any industry is measured by economic value, but the reality for government should also to be the understanding of the social impact and what wider value do you place on that if you make goods and services available more inclusively what is the benefit to individuals and businesses? You can improve…

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Thanks for the information. I will go through them.

In Japan, we have only 150KUSD budget allocated for accessible tourism out of 1 billion USD annual national tourism budget. I feel something goes wrong here because the economic impact of investing in this field is not at all understood by the society, bureaucrats and politicians. And even…

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In terms of measurement I don’t think this would be that easy to do in any detailed way in the sense of the impact across all access requirements, which can be many.

A number of factors also come into play in terms of understanding the need to provide appropriate information and the impact this has in decision making e.g. Accessibility…

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