Study on the current situation of Accessible Tourism in Palma de Mallorca

Abstract

[eng] Social development has made tourism a universal necessi ty , and people with barriers to travel have the same demands and need t o be taken into serious consideration. T his p aper adopts a literature review of the hi story and current situa tion of the development of accessible tourism in Spain as a w hole. Taking Palma, a top tourist destination in Spain, as a ca se study, the paper inv estigates the situation of accessible t o urism facilities i n Palma through a combinatio n of field survey and q uestionnaire analysis, and focuses on the elderly, disabled a nd mother and baby groups to evaluate their experience of acces sible tourism facilitie s in Palma. Based on this, the experien c es an d problems of the development of accessib le tourism in Palma are discussed, and some improvement measures are proposed.