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DEVELOPING SPORTS TOURISM FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

The international tourist market is ever- changing, but trends in the last decades have shown that sports tourism is one of the most important special interests of tourism. Within sports tourism, there is a growing segment of sports tourism for people with disabilities. People with disabilities want to be involved in sports because it allows them to develop all their abilities. Global awareness about this problem is growing and this segment of sports tourism is developing fast. Therefore, the tourism industry should adapt its offer for this category of tourist. This paper focuses on the process of developing sports tourism for people with disabilities in Istria, the most visited Croatian tourist region. The purpose of this paper is to explore the adjustment to people with disabilities in hotels in the five most visited tourist destinations in Istria. This research has shown that hotels in those tourist destinations have adapted their facilities for people with disabilities very poorly and they hardly think about developing sports tourism for physically disabled individuals at all.

tourism, sports tourism, people with disabilities, Istria, Croatia

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