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UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
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SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00970-7
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Accessible tourism; Assistive technology; Impaired cyborgs; Tourists with disabilities; Traveling
Despite the promotion of tourism as a fundamental right, disabled people still face barriers to travel. This study explores the use of cyborg products, such as technological implants, to enable disabled tourists to access inaccessible destinations. The study assesses the willingness of tourists with mobility disabilities (TMD) to use technological implants during travel through qualitative research. The findings highlight the use of assistive devices and drivers for impaired cyborg tourists, contributing to the literature and providing implications for the tourism industry stakeholders.
Despite the media reports and governments promoting tourism as a fundamental right for everyone, traveling is still not accessible for disabled people. This study has highlighted the need to make tourists with disabilities accessable for inaccessible destinations. Cyborg products in the form of technological implants can make tourists with disabilities accessable for inaccessible destinations. Since tourists with a mobility disability (TMD) will be one of the primary beneficiaries of technological implants, little is known about their acceptance of technological implants during traveling.Therefore, this study assesses the willingness of TMD to use technological implants during traveling through a qualitative research approach. The results from thematic analysis identified two main themes: the use of assistive devices during traveling with four sub-themes (freedom of traveling, physical and attitudinal barriers, cost, and additional assistance and battery issues), and drivers of impaired cyborg tourists with seven sub-themes (independence, improved well-being, convenience/ease of use, social inclusion, positive emotions, motivation, and other issues). The study contributed to the literature by introducing drivers of impaired cyborg tourists along with previously identified concepts. The results also provided implications for the stakeholders of the tourism industry.
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