Accessible Travel
Accessible travel organizations advocate for accessible wheelchair travel, provide travel support for the mobility impaired, and promote travel solution and opportunities for all people with disabilities.
Organizations
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Able to Travel is dedicated to improving travel for people with disabilities. Travel agents are available to answer any questions pertaining to travel needs and disabilities.
Accessible Vacation Home Exchange
A free online exchange that matches people with disabilities who want to exchange accessible homes during vacations. From the Independent Living Institute.
Association for Airline Passenger Rights
The purpose of the Association for Airline Passenger Rights shall be to educate policymakers on travel-related information important to airline passengers, improve accessibility for passengers with disabilities and protect the consumer rights and responsibilities of airline passengers.
Association of Travel Instruction
Organization that supports providers of travel instruction for the purpose of teaching people with disabilities and seniors to travel safely and independently on all modes of public transportation, anywhere in the world.
Disability Travel and Recreation Resources
Extensive collection of links to travel planning, destinations, transportation, resources for children, disability-related travel books, and other useful resources.
The website for Project Action is a U.S. DOT & FTA funded program to address accessible transportation in the community. Easter Seals Project ACTION works to bring together transportation and the disability community. Offers information on taxis, fact sheets, accessible rural transportation and accessible travel info.
Outstanding resource about air travel for passengers with disabilities. Information includes airport accessibility, medical assistance, airline notification, discrimination, and disabled travelers' rights.
National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange
Comprehensive one-stop resource for people with disabilities, exchange and disability staff interested in study, work, intern, volunteer, research or teach abroad programs, a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Founded by disability writer, speaker, and consultant Eric Lipp, ODO provides comprehensive research, training, and guidance in marketing strategies and ADA compliance for businesses. Check the website for disability resources, including practical, information travel articles by Laurel Van Horn.
This site gives information for wheelchair users on using public transportation. Gives simple step-by-step directions for strapping down a wheelchair, so the passenger may ride safely. The Glossary terms provides all the vocabulary one would need in discussing this procedure.
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