{"id":1989,"date":"2018-10-30T20:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T00:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spintheglobe.net\/dir\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2019-03-15T22:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T02:13:39","slug":"hotel-manager-wheelchair-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spintheglobe.net\/dir\/2018\/10\/30\/hotel-manager-wheelchair-day\/","title":{"rendered":"One Hotel Manager’s Experience as a Wheelchair User for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in late 2016, I wrote a post for this blog titled, “Why Hotel Managers Should Be Disabled* for a Day<\/a>.” \u00a0This isn’t because I want any harm to come to hotel managers. I actually inserted the asterisk after the word disabled because I meant that it would be immensely helpful for wheelchair users if hotel managers could view their properties’ accessibility (or lack thereof) through our eyes, even if just for one day. Since that time, I’ve tried to come up with a way to partner with a hotel property in my community and its manager to explore that hotel with the manager in a manual wheelchair. To say it’s been challenging is an understatement. But thanks to a recent partnership I’ve had with an adaptive technology class at Rollins College in nearby Winter Park, Florida, I was finally able to make this happen. I was also there to document the entire experience, and you can see my little documentary in the video below. Read more below that for the background of how this project happened and more details of the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n