Abstract
The aim of the research is to study the impact of inclusive tourism on the subjective assessment of the well-being level of tourists with disabilities and tourists without disabilities. The article deals with the issues of the conceptual apparatus of inclusive tourism, the peculiarities of its organization in Russia, taking into account foreign experience. Moreover, the study highlights the issues of inclusive tourism that have an impact on human well-being. Based on a sociological survey, the attitude to inclusive tourism as a way of influencing the subjective feeling of well-being in people with disabilities and in people without functional impairments is analyzed. The results of the study show that people with disabilities not only visit exhibitions and theaters, but also travel around Russia and other countries. It is concluded that there are positive shifts of respondents towards the implementation of the idea of inclusive tourism, since there is a direct relationship between the number of travels and the well-being of respondents. It is emphasized that a wide questionnaire survey, discussion of inclusive tours is already influencing the formation of a new level of consciousness of all participants in the tourism market and even at this stage creates new opportunities for the formation of human well-being.
Highlights
Accessible tourism is a relevant area of tourism development around the world
Studying the methodological approaches to technologies and the organization of inclusive tourism that exist today in domestic practice, we note that the essence of this process is considered through the organization of tourism for people with disabilities, and an equal sign is put between such definitions as “wheelchair tourism”, "paratourism", "social tourism", "rehabilitation tourism"
According to the authors of the article, this approach to defining the essence of inclusive tourism is methodologically incorrect, since it does not take into account the most important function of inclusion - the involvement of a tourist/traveler in society, in a microgroup
Summary
Accessible tourism is a relevant area of tourism development around the world. Accessible tourism is associated with a barrier-free environment and is based on an international principle, enshrined in documents such as The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Standard Rules on the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities, adopted by resolution 48/96 of the UN General Assembly on 20.12.1993. Analyzing the regulatory framework of the Russian Federation, we note that national standards have been created that regulate the quality of services for designated categories of citizens and are aimed at the formation of hotel and tourist services of universal design This is how the requirements for the equipment of hotel rooms and the requirements for organizing travel for people with limited mobility, disabled people and people with functional impairments are defined. Both Russian [1,2,3,4,5] and foreign authors [6,7] are engaged in the problems of the formation and development of inclusive tourism. The hypothesis that was put forward taking into account the identified problem during the analysis of the literature, the opinions of participants in the Russian tourist services market is as follows first of all it is the tourists who do not have functional health disorders who are not ready to implement inclusive tours
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