Scott Rains
My passion is "social change with an ICT toolkit." My professional experience spans two domains:
- Consulting in travel and disability
- Management in non-profits and higher education
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- Consulting in travel and disability
- Management in non-profits and higher education
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The comments focus on three points at which confusion predictably enters into discussions on this subject or disability and tourism:
● What is tourism from the point of view of those who work in the tourism sector
● What is disability from the point of view of those with lived experience of disability
● Why accessibility is not sufficient if a destination lacks a culture of inclusion
This talk is part of the author's broad-ranging efforts since 2004 to insert the practices of Inclusive Tourism and Inclusive Destination Management into both the tourism sector and the disability community of Brazil.
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Universal Design is a framework for the design of places, things, information, communication and policy to be usable by the widest range of people operating in the widest range of situations without special or separate design. Most simply, Universal Design is human-centered design of everything with everyone in mind.
Universal Design is also called Inclusive Design, Design-for-All and Lifespan Design. It is not a design style but an orientation to any design process that starts with a responsibility to the experience of the user. (Source: http://www.adaptenv.org/universal-design)
Then there is "person-to-person friendly." That’s the kind of "neighborly" you learn at home that teaches you to see somebody else’s need and respond to it appropriately.
In my experience, there is sometimes an inverse proportion between the two depending on how wheelchair-friendly the physical environment appears to non-disabled people...."
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"How to put our expertise together to help destinations that want to engage in an inclusive tourism offer?"
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