Reframing the experiences of travellers with mobility impairments: Enhancing the leisure constraints model

This paper offers a descriptive enhancement of the leisure constraints model through a qualitative, interviewbased study of constraints and facilitators experienced by travellers with mobility impairments. Closely corresponding to the tripartite leisure constraints model and its acknowledgment of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural constraints, four themes emerge in relation to the presence of both constraints and facilitators: psychology, people, place, and payment. These four Ps demonstrate the complexity of travel with mobility impairments: barriers and enablers that exist within the mind (psychology), the importance of other individuals who both encourage and discourage participation (people), the role played by the physical environment (place), and the significance of access to monetary resources (payment). The four P approach adds to the leisure constraints model by building on its scale-based focus - intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural factors - with descriptive terms that speak more pointedly to specific categories of constraints and facilitators. This study contributes to knowledge through adding to previously identified constraints and facilitators as well as introducing a new way to categorise them.

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This paper provides a descriptive enhancement of the leisure constraints model by studying constraints and facilitators experienced by travellers with mobility impairments. Four themes (psychology, people, place, payment) demonstrate the complexity of travel with mobility impairments, and the four P approach adds specific categories of constraints and facilitators to the scale-based focus of the model. This study contributes to knowledge by adding to previously identified constraints and facilitators and introducing a new way to categorize them.