Disabled person's tourism - a component of social tourism

摘要

There are enough reasons for the segment of people with disabilities to require special attention from both the service providers, of all types, as well as from researchers in the fields of management, marketing, tourism, law, computer science, psychology, sociology etc. What must be said is that the phenomenon exists, it is deepening and must be given special attention. The arguments underlying the support of this work can be viewed from different perspectives: legislative, social, economic, technological and not least psychosocial.Based on these arguments, this paper attempts to address a very sensitive issue in Romanian tourism, namely tourism for disabled persons.To identify this market segment, it is necessary to use the data classification provided by the World Health Organization, the first being the Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH), established by the English rheumatologist Philippe Woods. This classification was revised in 2002, when it became the International Classification of ICIDH -2.The World Health Organization (WHO) defines disability using three concepts: "Deficiencies, Incapacities and Disadvantages", the so called DID approach.It is certain, however, that to this date, creating a social model for disabled persons, to be treated in the tourism literature has failed.Our research sought to emphasize the context in which society is ready to accept a new segment of consumers, with special needs, on an already outlined tourism market.