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Tourism Promotion and Disability: Still a (Linguistic) Taboo? A Preliminary Study

Tourism Promotion and Disability: Still a (Linguistic) Taboo? A Preliminary Study
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Author(s): Stefania Gandin (Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 19
Source title: Innovative Perspectives on Tourism Discourse
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska (University of Gdansk, Poland)and Enriqueta Cortes de los Rios (Almeria University, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2930-9.ch004

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Abstract

This study illustrates the preliminary results of a corpus-based analysis aimed at discovering the main linguistic features characterising the promotion of tourism for special-needs travellers. Even if accessible tourism represents an important sector in the market, not only for its social and moral importance but also for its strong economic potential, detailed research on the linguistic properties of tourism for disabled people is still rather limited and mainly tends to focus on the problems of physical access rather than considering the ways to improve its promotional strategies. Through a comparative corpus-based analysis, this paper will investigate the relevant linguistic features of a corpus of promotional materials advertising holidays and tourist services for the disabled, and relate them to the communicative strategies of two other corpora dedicated to the standard and translational language of tourism. The aim of this research is to show how mainstream tourism discourse still considers disability as a taboo topic, mostly ignoring or vaguely mentioning it in the general promotion of tourist destinations. The study will also attempt to suggest new linguistic and social attitudes aimed at stylistically improving and further including the accessible tourism sector within the overall tourism promotion.

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