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Tune in to hear from an accessible travel advocate about why the industry shouldn't overlook customers with disabilities. But looks like it’s a long road ahead for players to become truly inclusive.
Family vacations and holidays never existed for Neha Arora as a child — with a visually impaired father and a wheelchair-bound mother.
“As a child I thought money was the barrier. So, when I started earning, I planned and organized a family holiday only to realize that the reason why we never traveled was because of the inaccessibility, insensitivity and the prejudice of our society,” said the founder of Planet Abled, an inclusive travel brand promoting travel for persons with disabilities and the elderly.
In conversation with Skift’s Asia Editor Peden Doma Bhutia in the latest episode of the Skift India Travel Podcast, Arora tells us how a series of not-so-good travel experiences led her to start Planet Abled.
The podcast discussed about how the starting point of creating accommodations and accessibility needs for disabled travelers is to realize that