The Dis/abled Tourist. Navigating an Ableist Tourism World
Cover image. Drawing of a skyline with heritage buildings; in the foreground people walking, cycling, one person with a lower limb prosthesis, an older couple arm-in-arm and a person with a guide dog. Above the skyline the entire drawing is turned on its head.
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This book is part of a series of volumes addressing a notable gap in the literature on Tourism studies by focusing on the tourist experience in a cohesive and thematically structured manner.
This book addresses a growing demand to hear the authentic voices and understand the lived tourist experiences of people with disability. This latest volume in The Tourist Experience series challenges what is arguably an exclusionary, marginalising, discriminatory and ableist tourism world.
By drawing attention to the "dis/" in disabled, the authors provoke the need to challenge binary thinking about people who live with disability so that they may be 'able' to assume the role of tourist. They engage critical tourism and critical disability studies and their respective theories, perspectives and debates around, for instance, models of disability, that shape conceptualisations and world views, inclusive research and enabling language and the ethics of care. These are pivotal to dismantling normative structures to enable a more inclusive equitable and socially just tourist experience that promotes a more independent and dignified tourism world for people with disability.
"I will be recommending this book to anyone in tourism. It will be a revelation to many tourism practitioners and also a solid textbook for those engaged in tourism studies and disability studies."
- Ivor Ambrose, Managing Director, ENAT - European Network for Accessible Tourism.
The Dis/abled Tourist. Navigating an Ableist Tourism World
Authors
Dr. Brielle Gillovic is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand.
Dr Alison McIntosh is a Professor of Tourism in the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand.
Dr. Simon Darcy is a Professor of Social Inclusion in the UTS Business School at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Published 2024, 85 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-80455-829-4 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-80455-828-7 (Online)
ISBN: 978-1-80455-830-0 (Epub)
The Tourist Experience Series
Series Editor: Richard Sharpley
Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, United Kingdom.