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Access Tourism Conference

The first New Zealand Conference on accessible tourism, travel, and hospitality for people with disabilities and seniors will be held on 4 October 2010.

This one day conference is organized by the New Zealand Tourism Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland New Zealand. It will examine various aspects of tourism for people, with disabilities and seniors. A neglected sector in New Zealand, tourism for the disabled is predicted to become of major importance worldwide as Baby Boomers age and begin to experience increased disability. Access Tourism is the fastest growing sector overseas as people with disabilities take advantage of increasingly accessible international tourism products. In New Zealand, our most important domestic and international visitor segment already comprises those who are 45 years old or older and it is predicted that the age of tourists will increase worldwide over the next several decades. New Zealand must prepare for the needs of this market if it is to benefit from it.

Please note that in order to keep costs down, this conference is designed to be as sustainable as possible. Therefore, there will be no conference packs or gifts for speakers, and morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea will be basic.

Registration: Early bird: on or before August 31: NZD$125 After 31 August: NZD$150

Conference programme:

The conference will include (but is not limited to) coverage of some or all of the following aspects of Access Tourism:

Introduction to Access Tourism
Rationale for developing Access Tourism
Access Tourism in New Zealand
Developments in Auckland
World Access Tourism
Accessible websites and information
Access and transport
The Access Tourist; experiencing tourism with: Mobility loss, Hearing loss, Vision loss
The legal arena
Workshops/forum for dialogue: strategies for advancing the development of Access Tourism; developing collaboration as a tool to advance that development

Speakers: Speakers include both national and international experts in various aspects of Access and tourism. Abstracts from presentations made at the conference will be made available on the NZTRI website after the conference.

Source: http://nztri.aut.ac.nz/accesstourismconference/index.html

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