Accessible all areas: Travelling with a disability has never been easy - but innovative companies are giving ‘all-inclusive’ holidays a whole new meaning
Having a disability in 2022 shouldn’t hold you back. But the reality is access difficulties, cost and a lack of choice mean the able-bodied are still travelling far more than disabled holidaymakers. The National Travel Survey carried out just before the pandemic found disabled adults in England made on average 26 per cent fewer trips and travelled 41 per cent fewer miles than the non-disabled. Thankfully, some innovative tour operators, airlines, hotels and self-catering companies are trying to redress the balance. Here’s a few places to look. By the age of 18, Amar Latif had lost 95 per cent of his sight. He went to Canada anyway, for his last year of university, then went jungle trekking in Nicaragua for a BBC documentary about travellers with disabilities. Now Amar runs his own tour company where, uniquely, each group trip has a mix of blind and visually impaired holidaymakers plus sighted travellers. Each day, a sight-impaired person is paired up with a sighted group member, who