page_title: Accessible tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Accessible tourism
caption_attribution_description: Information: Internationales Jahr der Behinderten: Behinderte besuchen Museum Ausgabepreis: 15 Pfennig First Day of Issue / Erstausgabetag: 23. Juni 1981 Auflage: 3.500.000 Entwurf: Joachim Rieß Druckverfahren: Offsetdruck Michel-Katalog-Nr: Ländercode-MiNr: 2622
context_page_description: Accessible tourism is the ongoing endeavour to ensure tourist destinations, products and services are accessible to all people, regardless of their physical limitations, disabilities or age. It encompasses publicly and privately owned tourist locations. The term has been defined by Darcy and Dickson as:
  Accessible tourism enables people with access requirements, including mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive dimensions of access, to function independently and with equity and dignity through the delivery of universally designed tourism products, services and environments. This definition is inclusive of all people including those travelling with children in prams, people with disabilities and seniors.
context_section_description: Accessible tourism is the ongoing endeavour to ensure tourist destinations, products and services are accessible to all people, regardless of their physical limitations, disabilities or age. It encompasses publicly and privately owned tourist locations. The term has been defined by Darcy and Dickson (2009, p34) as:
  Accessible tourism enables people with access requirements, including mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive dimensions of access, to function independently and with equity and dignity through the delivery of universally designed tourism products, services and environments. This definition is inclusive of all people including those travelling with children in prams, people with disabilities and seniors.
caption: An East German stamp showing disabled persons in a museum
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