PARIWISATA RAMAH PENYANDANG DISABILITAS

Abstract

During this time, the concept of tourism is only designed for people who are normal and has not been
designed for disabled people. Tourism is right for human being including disabled people. Friendly tourism
for persons with disabilities should provide the facility and accesibility for disabled people. Sen (2007)
defines that there are three requirements for disabled people in tourism, those are: availability for
accessibility, transportation, and accomodation.This research is intended to find out what extent tourism
management can provide facilityand accesibility for disabled people and what the obstacles and supporting
factors are to develop the friendly tourism for disabled people. This research uses qualitatif method. Tourism
places proposed in this research are shopping tourism (Malioboro zone), history tourism (Taman Sari and
Keraton), and educational tourism (Taman Pintar). Data collected in this research use interview technique,
observation, and questioner. This sample of this research has been taken from 100 disabled tourists who
travel to those three objects. The result of this research shows that the facility and accesibility provided to
disabled people are still less. Moreover, there is no regulation that obligates the tourism place to serve
friendly facility and accesibility for disabled people. Budget resource and human capital are still limited for
tourism management to establish friendly tourism place for disabled people. Hence, the research result
recommends the tourism policy maker to provide friendly facility and accesibility for disabled people.