Raffay, Z., & Gonda, T. (2020). Innovative good practices of accessible tourism. Modern Geográfia, 15(4), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.15170/MG.2020.15.04.01
An area not given enough attention by Hungarian tourism academics is accessible tourism. Some change in this respect can only be seen in the very recent years, by some researchers starting to focus on this issue. The authors of the paper, besides providing a comprehensive summary of the Hungarian literature, also give an outlook to the international literature of the topic. The issue of accessible tourism concerns approximately 10% of the total population of Europe; accordingly, in addition to the social and solidarity significance of the issue, accessible tourism concerns a mass of people that should not be neglected from an economic perspective. In order to be able to create an adequate supply, and also for the equality in the access to services it is indispensable to be aware of the expectations and special consumption habits of the people involved in accessible tourism. The actors, as experts in the Erasmus project called Peer Act, look at the relevant public policies and practices of 5 countries (Hungary, Germany, Italy, Spain and Croatia). With the collaboration of the partner organisations involved in the project, 23 good practices were collected from these countries; also, a questionnaire survey was conducted among the target group of accessible tourism. The processing and evaluation of the findings of the research is underway. This paper is primarily a comparative analysis of good practices, but the tourism habits of people with disabilities are also discussed in a few issues.
Keywords: accessible tourism, good practice, disabilities, accessibility