Tagged: accessibility

New Travel App Rates Accessible Hotels, Restaurants, and Attractions

For people with disabilities—a group making up an estimated 26% of the U.S. adult population—travel planning in great detail is essential. Trouble is, great details are hard to come…

Pressure Mounts for Improving Accessibility for Air Travelers with Disabilities

Every time he boards a commercial aircraft, Lee Page fears being injured. Having used a wheelchair for more than four decades, Page says the airline boarding process requires…

New Travel Grants to Help Wheelchair Users Take Their Dream Trips

On top of travel expenses such as airfare, hotel rooms, museum tickets, and those churros at Walt Disney World that sell for $6.39 apiece, people who use wheelchairs have a whole other…

PHOTOS: Peppa Pig's New Florida Theme Park Might Be the Most Adorable Ever

February 23, 2022 Orlando just got a new competitor for the family theme park dollar, and she's one sassy pig. The new Peppa Pig Theme Park opens this week in Winter Haven, Florida,…

These New Global Tours Are Fully Accessible for Wheelchair Users and Other Travelers

The mission of the online platform Wheel the World is to make travel more accessible for seniors and people with disabilities. At the site, users can find and book things to do, places…

Slip Slidin’ Away: Venice’s Too-Slick Glass Bridge Getting a Stone Makeover

We're not structural engineers or anything, but putting an arched footbridge made out of a notoriously slippery substance in the middle of a famously soggy city seems like a surefire…

Tokyo Cafe’s Robot Waiters Operated Remotely by Staffers with Disabilities

We usually think of robots as taking jobs away from humans, but the opposite is true at a new cafe in Tokyo. Opened June 22 in the city's Nihonbashi area, Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe uses…

How Travelers with Disabilities Can Get Special Equipment for Air Travel—for Free

For travelers who use wheelchairs, airplane seats can present a special challenge—in getting into them and getting out of them, as well as maintaining a secure position during…

California Improving Coastal Access with New Beach Wheelchairs

Eighteen coastal sites in California—from Clam Beach, where Highway 101 meets the Pacific in northern Arcata, to lively Ocean Beach in San Diego—are getting new wheelchairs and other…

The World's Best Airports

Because an airport is a means to an end—never a destination in its own right—it’s usually judged by how efficiently it lets you leave the premises or by how effectively it distracts…

Hotel Chain Brings Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation to Guests

Travelers who are deaf or hearing-impaired can now make use of a cool new free service at Room Mate Hotels, a Spain-based chain with 22 properties in cities around the world, including…

10 Questions To Ask Your Travel Insurance Provider

Travel insurance is a tricky, slippery world. "I don't know how people without insurance backgrounds figure out insurance," said Steve Dasseos, president of TripInsuranceStore.com…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Norway

Oslo One of Norway's largest hotel chains, Thon Hotels, has opened its first budget hotel, Thon Hotel Gardermoen (Balder Allè 22; tel. 64-00-45-00; www.thonhotels.com/gardermoen),…