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Experiences of tourists with intellectual disabilities: A phenomenological approach
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper aims to explore ways in which adults with intellectual disabilities experience tourism. The study applies phenomenology and draws on in-depth interviews with participants with intellectual disabilities focusing on their lived experiences of tourism. The tourism experience was significant and meaningful to the participants, in that tourism provided a sense of ‘normality,’ encouraged self-efficacy, and strengthened relational connections. This paper advances theory by conceptualising the nature of the tourism experience through the authentic voices and lived experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities. This lens of intellectual disability addresses a scarcity of representation in existing tourism scholarship, augmenting and advancing inclusive understandings of tourism experiences for these individuals with disabilities.
- Subjects :
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05 social sciences
1504 Commercial Services, 1506 Tourism
Social model of disability
Representation (arts)
medicine.disease
Accessible tourism
Scarcity
Scholarship
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
0502 economics and business
Intellectual disability
Pedagogy
medicine
050211 marketing
Sociology
Phenomenology (psychology)
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Tourism
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3fbe28aed2c699f0795378b17f1426bc