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Tourism and neurodiversity: a problematisation and research agenda
Current Issues in Tourism, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 1 - 21
Swansea University Authors:
Allan Jepson, Brian Garrod
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/13683500.2023.2233040
Abstract
This paper focuses on the concept of neurodiversity and how it applies to tourism. Through a critical analysis based on the social model of disability, the paper begins by highlighting that neurodiversity has been poorly problematised in tourism research. Using the challenges involved in holidaymaki...
| Published in: | Current Issues in Tourism |
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| ISSN: | 1368-3500 1747-7603 |
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Informa UK Limited
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63769 |
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This paper focuses on the concept of neurodiversity and how it applies to tourism. Through a critical analysis based on the social model of disability, the paper begins by highlighting that neurodiversity has been poorly problematised in tourism research. Using the challenges involved in holidaymaking for families with autistic children as an example, the paper demonstrates how tourism providers and governments have failed to identify what changes are required to meet the needs of neurodivergent people and who should be responsible for implementing them. From this discussion, a framework for action with three tiers of responsibility (governments, the tourism system, neurodiverse families) is developed. The paper then concludes with a research agenda for the future study of tourism and neurodiversity with particular reference to the social model of neurodiversity and the responsibilities of the tourism industry, tourists and governments (including charitable organisations). From this a call to arms for all tourism researchers to embrace research into neurodiversity through the framework and research agenda is developed. |
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| Keywords: |
Neurodiversity, neurodivergent, family holidays, autism, responsibilities, tourism management, research agenda |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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4 |
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1 |
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21 |