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Having a physical disability or a child with special needs should not exclude anyone from traveling, but you may need to spend some extra time planning to have the trip of a lifetime. One time I went to Mexico on a trip. I had planned to stay in a hotel …
Who doesn’t want to spend a magnificent vacation in a beach hotel with the best services? This Barcelo ***** hotel is located in front of one of the most beautiful beaches in the Mexican Caribbean, which stretches 1.2 miles along the Mayan Riviera. The hotel has recently been refurbished to meet …
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Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs. Millennia-old monuments sit along the fertile Nile River Valley, including Giza’s colossal Pyramids and Great Sphinx as well as Luxor’s hieroglyph-lined Karnak Temple and Valley of the Kings tombs. The capital, Cairo, is …
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Duration: 7 Days Location: ROME, VATICAN CITY, OSTIA, POMPEII Language: English. Other languages on request. Please note for this tour the wheelchair user have to rent our special wheelchair for inaccessible sites Wheely trekky. The site is not accessible with manual or electric wheelchair or mobility scooter. Price: Special Offer! Contact us to discover …
A question that I frequently ponder and has long since remained on my mind; is the World ‘disabled’? Does this in turn create an inequality for people who are ‘differently abled’? As a lover of the English language, let this thought steep for a moment… The term ‘Dis’ in medicine …
A question that I frequently ponder and has long since remained on my mind; is the World 'disabled'? Does this in turn create an inequality for people who are 'differently abled'?
As a lover of the English language, let this thought steep for a moment... The term 'Dis' in medicine has meanings that would strongly suggest that the world is disabled... Words that describe 'Dis' - ''Not, Absence of, opposite of, Deprive of and Remove".
Let's assume that the 1.6 Billion people in the world who are differently abled were included in a designer's thoughts or a craftsman' when planning the simplest of designs- a picnic table would automatically have the ability for someone in a wheelchair to roll in to a spot. When this is NOT done, has the world via this picnic table 'removed' us; thus 'disabling us?? I know this may appear a bit 'philosophical', kind of the 'what came first- the chicken or the egg'; however, man has been here a long time, Traces of the world's first known disabled, elderly human have been found in Spain.
The individual is thought to have been a male who received support from his group and lived 500,000 years ago.
This discovery suggests that our ancient human relatives were capable of compassion and social bonding.
"-A prehistoric pelvis, nicknamed "Elvis," and other fossilized bones are what's left of the world's first known elderly human with clear signs of aging and impairment, according to a paper in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The remains, which date back to 500,000 years ago, also represent the earliest postcranial evidence for an aged individual in the human fossil record.
The elderly fellow, who lived in Spain, was a member of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a type of ancient human believed by some to be exclusive to Europe and ancestral only to Neanderthals.-"
Perhaps, it is time to see the term 'disabled' in its literal meaning according to medicine and Latin. This demographic or group have not recently joined civilization and are now asking to be accommodated. This 'disabled' world did not have their thinking caps on when creating it.
We are 'deprived' of access to many, many beautiful things....
Let's look at this in terms that people will appreciate- Money! Let's consider one of life's greatest joys, travel- The Inclusive Tourism market has been estimated as being worth US$134 billion annually. Already a major tourism sector, it is a market driven by the retirement of the baby boomers, who command almost 60% of net US wealth and 40% of spending. In travel, boomers represent over 50% of consumption. The impact on the Inclusive Tourism sector is significant as over 40% of them will be retiring with some form of disability, raising the total value of this sector to over 25% of the tourism market by 2020.
As an Accessible Travel Specialist I encourage the world of business to become less 'disabled' and start putting the cart before the horse....
