EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL OF DISABLE EXAMPLES IN THE WORLD AND IN OUR COUNTRY
Author(s): Funda Ankaya1, Bahriye Gülgün2
- 1. Manisa Celal Bayar University, Alaşehir Vocational School, Landscape and Ornamental Plants Program, 45600 Alaşehir/Manisa.
- 2. Department of Landscape Architecture Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University, Bornova, İzmir- Turkey
Abstract: Tourism is a cultural and economic activities, that people conduct to rest, to joy, to explore, to have more information during their temporary stay. According to World Health Organization’s data more than one billion people on Earth have disability among seven million people in our country, ten million people out of 80 million have disabilities. In modern communities all individuals have the canal rights to join this kind of activities. Disable tourism, which is a global sector within tourism, needs to be developed in order to have economic growth. In this study, classification of disabilities, measurements of disability tourism, the situation in the word and in our country is analyzed and brought same solutions.