Explaining in several paragraphs why
accessibility in tourism is not important just in tourism…
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It is a well-known fact that Tourism is one of the fastest growing
industries that provides economic, environmental and social benefits at local
and global scales. As well as benefits from one hand, from the other there are
also negative impacts, which is not the situation in the case I am going to
comment below.
Today, accessibility
is one of the major trends in tourism. There have been a lot discussed,
researched and written about the Accessibility in Tourism topic, but people started
to get more conscious about this issue just a couple of years ago.
Accessibility in tourism is important for
several reasons. First and the most obvious one is that it gives the
possibility for people with reduced mobility to travel on their own, which is
incredibly good because they also have rights and desire to travel and see the
world outside the country´s frontiers. The second and actually the reason why
this post is out, it give locals the possibility to use the same facilities and
live in a more accessible environment day by day. It is not a secret that
tourism industry is a big business that implies spending but mostly earning a
lot of money. Businesses are in a never ending competition for gaining more
sales revenues, more profits and more market share. There is one basic desire
among them all: to make money (let´s keep the “client satisfaction” for another
time). And why not let them make this money, if it implies benefits for the
locals as well.
Accessibility in tourism is a trend, is a need
and it is getting more and more important every time. While the private
companies and governments are thinking about how to become more accessible and
user friendly in terms of tourism, since this is totally a niche market
nowadays, their actions of improvements benefit locals in the first place. And
this is fantastic. Imagine people who cannot go to the grocery´s shop just
because there are no elevators in their block of flats, or ramps, or the
pavement on the streets is not adopted for moving along and crossing streets. Then
there are grocery shops that doesn´t provide facilities for people to enter
into the shop and then move inside etc. There are a lot more examples that we
can think of, and this is a very sad reality.
As long as businesses and governments want to
improve their revenues and brands by being accessible and covering this niche
market, in the first place it will be beneficial for the locals. This is one of
the most positive impacts at the level of “society” and “humanity” that tourism
has nowadays. It makes you open your eyes and understand that there are people
that doesn´t just want to travel in an accessible way, but they also need to
live in their own country and have the possibility to do what the locals and
the tourists do.
This is why accessibility in tourism is
important, and not just for tourists.
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