Lead Tourism

forthcoming

The diversity of needs expressed by tourists with disabilities makes it unimaginable not to take them into consideration when creating accessible tourist spaces and experiences. Tourist satisfaction varies depending on how specific needs are accommodated, such as accessibility to public areas, recreation areas, and bathrooms in hotel rooms. The perception of accessibility has a siThe diversity of needs expressed by tourists with disabilities makes it unimaginable not to take them into consideration when creating accessible tourist spaces and experiences. Tourist satisfaction varies depending on how specific needs are accommodated, such as accessibility to public areas, recreation areas, and bathrooms in hotel rooms. The perception of accessibility has a significant impact on future motivation to travel. Tourism providers and hotel managers must be aware of the needs of different types of tourists with mental, physical, or developmental illnesses and disabilities in order to ensure the physical and psychological well-being of clients during their travel experience. In this sense, the support of new technologies to facilitate the range of services in a more concrete and specialized way, and collaboration in co-creating tourist spaces, products, and experiences, is regarded as vitally important. To meet these particular requirements in relation to the type and severity of the disability, customization offers a valuable strategy, as it allows users to establish their specific requirements and needs, steering them toward products and services that are relevant to them. The project gathers countries from Europe and Latin America that have strong touristic potential and the applicants are firmly convinced that tourism is a powerful driver for youth employability and local development. Furthermore, the project focuses on the exploitation of the “social entrepreneurship” concept into the VET Touristic sector by bringing together labour market actors with VET institutions