Expert in accessible travel – AUSTRIA
Expert in accessible travel Kristof Tomej
From the archives
In 2019 we introduced Kristov to our audience, a passionate traveler and researcher avant la lettre when it comes to the world of accessible travel. He had studied in great detail what accessible travel meant, for all globetrotters with little or no vision.
He concluded that there was little to none, and also that blind people or those with very low vision seldom travel alone.
Before the world of travel collapsed, he was a very committed and active member of the ATO Network.
Inclusive tourism
Kristof Tomej is a researcher working in the fields of tourism management and service marketing. As part of his doctoral studies, he has been researching holidays offered for inclusive groups consisting of people with and without visual impairment and involving sighted guiding.
He has been exploring the motivations for participating in such holidays as well as identifying ways of improving the design of inclusive services. Kristof worked as a Researcher and Lecturer at MODUL University Vienna (Austria).
Design tourism
He is interested in finding ways to incorporate more of the non-visual experiences in the design of tourism- and other services in order to make them more accessible to those customers that have limited sight.
For some of Kristof’s research, check his ResearchGate profile at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kristof_Tomej
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