While San Diego, California is the first US city where there have been publicly announced plans to hold an Inclusive Travel Fair, Chicago has been slowly amassing a selection of tourist sites that accommodate the growing market for travelers with disabilities.
Chicago's ABC affililiate filed the following story: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/karenmeyer/072605_disable_chicago.html. If US mayors systematically embrace Inclusive Destination Development the US might find itself with enough in-bound travel products to imitate the European Union and several of its memeber states, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, and other countries who have held national conferences on travel and Universal Design.
Posted by rollingrains at August 1, 2005 07:56 PM