Promoting Universal Tourism and Improving Accessibility

Universal tourism refers to travel designed to be enjoyable for everyone (universal design), with the goal of ensuring that anyone—regardless of age or disability—can participate without hesitation. We will examine what is needed in the host communities as we work to promote universal tourism. *This column is a reprint, with permission, of an article originally published in the February 2018 issue of “KER Economic Information” (published by the Kyushu Economic Research Institute).