The Disabled Tourist - (The Tourist Experience) by Brielle Gillovic & Alison McIntosh & Simon Darcy (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book addresses a growing demand to hear the authentic voices and understand the lived tourist experiences of people with disability. The latest volume in The Tourist Experience series challenges what is arguably an exclusionary, marginalising, discriminatory, and ableist (tourism) world.

Book Synopsis

This book addresses a growing demand to hear the authentic voices and understand the lived tourist experiences of people with disability. The 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 change 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 worldviews, 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.

Review Quotes

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.

About the Author

Brielle Gillovic, Auckland University of Technology Professor

Alison McIntosh, Auckland University of Technology Professor

Simon Darcy, University of Technology Sydney