Accessibility for People with Visual Impairment: a Preliminary Survey in Sectors Hotel Sectors South and North of Brasília

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Donária Coelho
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Jéssika Carvalho R.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Cenário
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistacenario/article/view/19434
• topic: Brasília. Hotelaria. Deficiência Visual. Acessibilidade.; Brasília. Hotel. Visual Disabilities. Accessibility.

This article has the objective analyze the accessibility for people with visual disabilities in the hotelsector. Therefore, it was made a bibliographic research about the peculiarities of visual disabilitie and tourism to these people. The study is characterized as exploratory, in which we used an interview guide and a observation script, both applied in 30 hotels located in the sectors north and south of Brasilia. The data collection had the collaboration of the President of the Friends Association of the Visually Impaired of Brasilia, allowing a deeper analysis. The survey concludes that the majority of hotels was not accessible to people with visual disabilities and their employees were not trained to receive these people. It was also verified that the establishments investigated did not receive the visit of a control organ, which leads to the reflection that the lack of inspection can cause in the noncompliance with the laws and norms.