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Scott Rains believes that if the world is more accessible, tourism will make more money due to more people traveling.
If you'll do a Google search on the Rick Hansen Foundation and the Global Accessibility Initiative, you'll find a map tool where people with disabilities can add their comments on how accessible an area or a destination are for people with wheelchairs and other disabilities. There are very good directories for Australia, the United Kingdom, Scotland and several other countries. But, to make the world more accessible for all of us, the tourism industries have to decide that they're going to make accessibility a part of the data they have available for consumers in all areas of advertisement and promotions and through every vehicle of marketing that the various tourism industries have at their disposal. We have to help the tourism community see that we're a viable market that spends money on travel, and that we are customers to whom they can promote and sell their travel products and destinations.
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Editor's Note: Dr. Scott Rains has used his disability, his love of travel, his genuine concern for others in wheelchairs, his goal of making the world more accessible to all people and his doctorate in ministries to create a consulting business. He has considered his disability and identified the advantages and the opportunities that disability affords him to become one of the leading authorities and most sought after experts in this area to make worldwide changes. He also works for the Rick Hansen Foundation, which has as one of its goals to change the world and make it more accessible for anyone with a disability. Part 5 of a 5 part series.