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10 Things the Travel Industry Needs to Know About Wheelchair Users

Where do I even begin to describe us? Society likes to lump us together as "people with disabilities" or "wheelchair users," and while we do have thos...

the debate over beds in wheelchair accessible hotel rooms

A good night's sleep. That's all a traveler really wants when he or she arrives at a hotel room after a long day of travel. Some people are more picky...

ACCESSIBILITY RATING: 2 / 5

I stayed at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina in mid-April 2018 because it was one of the official hotels for a confere...

I stay in a lot of hotel rooms. To be more specific, I spent 129 nights in [supposedly] wheelchair accessible hotel rooms in 2017. After each and ever...

I’m a professional traveler. In 2017 alone, I visited 17 countries and traveled over 118,000 miles. I covered all of that ground "on wheels"—specifica...

why you don't see more wheelchair users in public

According to the latest US Census data, almost 20 percent of the US population has some sort of disability. About 10 percent have a visible physical d...

how to plan a wheelchair accessible trip

Everyone knows that at least a little planning has to go into every vacation. Even intrepid European backpackers have to decide how to get to their ne...

Accessibility Rating: 3/5

One of the most frustrating things for a disabled traveler is to walk into a supposedly wheelchair accessible hotel room ...

I'm not sure why, but there seems to be this notion among many people that wheelchair users aren't into the more party-related or trendy things able-b...

One of the most amazing inventions for wheelchair users is surprisingly one of the most low-tech. It's the beach wheelchair, and it's allowing people ...