The impacts of limited transportation access on persons with disabilities' social participation

Bascom, Graydon W.; Christensen, Keith

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2017.10.002

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“…Creating awareness through educating the tourism sector was considered crucial by our participants and in the literature, as it removed the responsibility, guilt, and stress away from the access tourist [51][52][53][54][55][56][57]. For instance, interview participant 2 wrote that they would not visit a local venue if there was no companion available, as they would feel a "burden and stress out".…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Previous researchers have argued that access to regular, reliable, and frequent public transport is essential "to support their community participation and help migrate the impact of disability on their lives" [53] (p. 233). Regular public transport can also have wider additional benefits for environmental sustainability, as it tends to reduce a reliance on private cars [32,37].…”

Section: Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Improving the Accessibility of the Tourism Industry in New Zealand

Cockburn‐Wootten

McIntosh

2020

Sustainability

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Internationally, the accessible tourism market has been identified as a growing segment that could lead the way for social inclusiveness, as well as providing the industry with financial gains and destination competitiveness. Despite the increased number of people who travel with access requirements, the sector still lacks an understanding of the expectations and experiences of access tourists. Accessible tourism covers an array of impairments from people who are immobile, visually impaired, an invisible impairment, parents with pushchairs, and seniors. The purpose of this study was to understand the expectations and experiences of the access consumer to suggest improvements for accessibility for the New Zealand tourism sector. The social model of disability was adopted to examine the sector and framed the semi-structured interviews with access consumers. Key results identified from the data were the need to achieve dignity in service offerings to gain experiences that facilitate independence and equity of access, access to information before the travel that is clear and accurate to aid planning, and accessible transport and education. In conclusion, the paper calls for the New Zealand tourism industry to align with the Disability Strategy sustainability goals to achieve equity and inclusion and create enjoyable accessible experiences in their tourist offerings.

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Section: Educationmentioning

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Section: Transportmentioning

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Improving the Accessibility of the Tourism Industry in New Zealand

Cockburn‐Wootten

McIntosh

2020

Sustainability

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“…Many studies have focused on the traffic strategies for older adults [10–13], LI group [14–17] and individuals with disabilities [18–21]. For instance, Yang [12] discussed the policy suggestions acting as a valuable reference to the transportation plan considering the mobility of older people and modelling the mobility choices of older people in Hong Kong.…”

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Design and optimisation of multimodal traffic strategy for low‐mobility individuals

Tao

Yang

Cheng

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IET intell. transp. syst

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“…Attitudinal barriers, including experiences of stigma and negative labeling by recreational staff, can deter people with disabilities from pursing leisure activities (Bedini, 2000). Additionally, transportation-related barriers can hinder social participation as well as the maintenance of personal networks (Bascom & Christensen, 2017).…”

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Disability and Patterns of Leisure Participation Across the Life Course

Shandra

2020

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

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Objectives Patterns of healthy leisure are dependent upon age, but people with disabilities are particularly susceptible to passive and disengaged types of activities. This study evaluates how individuals with disabilities spend their time in passive, active, social, and isolated forms of leisure over the life course, and how these patterns vary by age. Method I analyze nationally representative data from 70,165 respondents ages 15 and older in the 2008, 2010, and 2012–2016 American Time Use Survey. Linear regression models estimate the association between disability and leisure time, net of self-rated health and sociodemographic controls. Interactions between age and disability are also evaluated, as well as the robustness of results by sensory, cognitive, physical, and multiple disability status. Results People with disabilities report significantly more, and poorer quality, leisure than people without disabilities. This includes more than 2 hr more time in passive leisure as well as a disproportionate amount of isolated leisure spent at home, alone. These differences are not fully explained by health and sociodemographic controls. The isolated leisure time of people with disabilities is most different from people without disabilities in later life—whereas differences in total and passive leisure time, by disability status, are greatest in midlife. Discussion People with disabilities spend less time in health-promoting forms of leisure at all ages, but these patterns are unique across midlife and older age.

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The impacts of limited transportation access on persons with disabilities' social participation

Cited by 98 publications

References 19 publications

Improving the Accessibility of the Tourism Industry in New Zealand

Improving the Accessibility of the Tourism Industry in New Zealand

Design and optimisation of multimodal traffic strategy for low‐mobility individuals

Disability and Patterns of Leisure Participation Across the Life Course

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