“Do you could have any knowledge to help that declare?”

Journey trade executives are shocked after I say, “sure, I do — and a variety of it!”

Information drives decision-making in enterprise, and I’m continually trying to find and amassing knowledge factors to extra precisely describe the expertise of disabled vacationers, whose views are so usually ignored by trade analysis.

In 2020, not lengthy after the pandemic shut down the world, I revealed an vital Accessible Journey Research that supplied airways, accommodations and locations with key insights in regards to the incapacity journey market at a time of huge change — it was the primary survey of disabled vacationers to quantify how COVID-19 would affect accessible journey demand.

With a lot of the world having moved on from the pandemic, and extra individuals touring than ever earlier than, it’s as soon as once more time to gather insights from the neighborhood of disabled vacationers — individuals such as you!

I invite and encourage you to full the survey for the 2024 Accessible Journey Research — your collective responses will paint an image of the state of accessible journey, serving to me to grow to be a greater advocate for improved entry and inclusion. Your responses might make the case for a wheelchair house on airplanes, resort room beds which might be accessible to wheelchair customers, transportation programs which might be designed for disabled passengers, and a lot extra!

Please take a couple of moments to fill out the survey questionnaire — your responses can be utterly nameless. If you’re a father or mother, sibling, partner, buddy or caregiver to a disabled individual, you’ll be able to reply to the survey as effectively — however please invite that individual to take part additionally… the “portray” our responses create can be extra full if giant numbers of disabled individuals share their distinctive views.

Thanks prematurely in your participation — by lending just some minutes of your time, you’ll make a distinction within the mission to open the world to disabled individuals by means of accessible journey.