Engendering collaborative accessibility through tourism: From barriers to bridges
本文挑战了旅游中关于残障和无障碍的传统假设,通过17位视障与健全人士的旅游故事,揭示人际依赖如何促进或限制协作式无障碍,为旅游研究和实践提供包容性思路。
This article challenges dominant assumptions about disability and accessibility in tourism and adopts a relational perspective to explore how collaborative accessibility can emerge through interpersonal interdependencies. We used polyphonic vignettes to weave the personal tourism stories of 17 people into two situated micronarratives that capture the dynamic relations between people with and without visual impairments. Our findings suggest that dependence on others, responsibility for others, confidence in one's own abilities in relation to others, assumptions about others' interests and collective experiencing can enable or constrain the agencies of those involved. Our discussion of how tourism stakeholders can leverage these interdependencies to engender collaborative accessibility with people can inform future disability-inclusive approaches in tourism research and practise.