The Dis/abled Tourist. Navigating an Ableist Tourism World

Editorial information: Emerald Publishing Limited. ISBN electronic: 978-1-80455-828-7. ISBN print: 978-1-80455-829-4.

This book addresses a growing demand to hear the authentic voices and understand the lived tourist experiences of people with disability. This latest volume in The Tourist Experience series challenges what is arguably an exclusionary, marginalising, discriminatory and ableist tourism world.

By drawing attention to the "dis/" in disabled, the authors provoke the need to challenge binary thinking about people who live with disability so that they may be 'able' to assume the role of tourist. They engage critical tourism and critical disability studies and their respective theories, perspectives and debates around, for instance, models of disability, that shape conceptualisations and world views, inclusive research and enabling language and the ethics of care. These are pivotal to dismantling normative structures to enable a more inclusive equitable and socially just tourist experience that promotes a more independent and dignified tourism world for people with disability.

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