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Sharing Experiences of Co-design for Accessible Tourism

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aut.relation.articlenumber104110
aut.relation.endpage104110
aut.relation.journalAnnals of Tourism Research
aut.relation.startpage104110
aut.relation.volume116
dc.contributor.authorMcIntosh, Alison
dc.contributor.authorFlemmer, Claire
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-06T21:47:44Z
dc.date.available2026-01-06T21:47:44Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-22
dc.descriptionThis research note seeks to encourage researchers to adopt “a new tradition of sharing experiences in order … to learn from one another” (Hendriks, Slegers, & Duysburgh, 2015, p. 70) in co-design with (Milner & Frawley, 2019) people with disabilities. Fraser-Barbour et al. (2025, p. 4) argue that co-design should “shift power towards people with disability”. However, previous studies have focused on the results of co-design rather than sharing effective principles, techniques and critical reflections of the co-design process. A pooling of knowledge allows greater reflection and understanding about ethical ways to partner with people with disabilities to empower them and ensure they can express their voice. In tourism research, there remains little evidence of co-design (Chiscano & Darcy, 2023), with most research failing to actively engage people with disabilities beyond being the subject of the research or tokenistic consultation (Dickson, Darcy, & Schweinsberg, 2024). Yet tourism environments continue to marginalise and discriminate against people with disabilities despite calls for transformative research that recognises the diversity of embodiments that shape access needs, such as mobility, vision/blind, hearing/Deaf, cognitive/intellectual, neurodiverse (Gillovic, McIntosh, & Darcy, 2024).
dc.identifier.citationAnnals of Tourism Research, ISSN: 0160-7383 (Print); 1873-7722 (Online), Elsevier Masson, 116, 104110-104110. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104110
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.annals.2025.104110
dc.identifier.issn0160-7383
dc.identifier.issn1873-7722
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/20440
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738325002166?via%3Dihub
dc.rights© 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You are not required to obtain permission to reuse this article.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subject1504 Commercial Services
dc.subject1505 Marketing
dc.subject1506 Tourism
dc.subjectSport, Leisure & Tourism
dc.subject3506 Marketing
dc.subject3508 Tourism
dc.subject4406 Human geography
dc.subjectCo-design
dc.subjectAccessible tourism
dc.subjectDisability
dc.subjectBuilt environment
dc.subjectInclusive research
dc.titleSharing Experiences of Co-design for Accessible Tourism
dc.typeJournal Article
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