• Dr. A .VASANTHI

The concept of “Accessible Tourism” refers to the adaptation of environments and of tourism products and services so as to enable access, use and enjoyment by all users, under the principles of Universal Design. In addition to the legal framework, extensive infrastructure has been developed to cater the disabled, including seven national Institutes for development of manpower in different areas. The Ministry of Tourism has also instituted to encourage other agencies responsible for maintaining monuments /tourist attractions to create barrier-free environment for the promotion of accessible tourism. Many home-based travel agents succeed by specializing in serving this market segment. Various leading travel agencies like Cox & Kings and Thomas Cook are powered by enabled Tour. Qualitative responses form the basis of this research paper. Besides this, secondary data is collected from the Annual Reports of UNWTO, Ministry of Tourism, Newspaper Reports and different journals and books. This paper attempts to understand the accessible tourism is a right of person with disabilities and to insist public and private agencies to implement the guidelines of UNWTO.

accessible, tourism, unwto

"ACCESSIBLE TOURISM - INDIAN PERSPECTIVE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.710-718, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901193.pdf

"ACCESSIBLE TOURISM - INDIAN PERSPECTIVE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp710-718, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901193.pdf