Disability Inclusion 

According to a 2014 report by Statistics South Africa, based on the 2011 census, 7.5% of the country's population is regarded as having a disability. The highest proportion of people living with disabilities, by province, was found to be in the Free State, with 11,1% of its population having a disability, followed by the Northern Cape, with 11%, the North West, with 10%, the Eastern Cape, with 9,6%, KwaZulu-Natal, with 8,4%, Mpumalanga, with 7%, Limpopo, with 6%, the Western Cape, with 5,4% and Gauteng, with 5,3%

Helping those in need

What Are Adaptive Sports?

Adaptive sports also known as disability sports or parasports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many disabled sports are based on existing able bodied sports, modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports.

Organized sport for athletes with a disability is generally divided into three broad disability groups: the deaf, people with physical disabilities, and people with intellectual disabilities. Each group has a distinct history, organization, competition program, and approach to sport.

The number of people with disabilities involved in sport and physical recreation is steadily increasing around the world with organized sports for athletes with disabilities divided into three main disability groups;

• Sports for the deaf
• Sports for persons with physical disabilities
• Sports for persons with intellectual disabilities

From the late 1980s, organizations began to include athletes with disabilities in sporting events such as the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. However, many sports are practiced by persons with a disability outside the formal sports movements, for example: Wheelchair basketball, Wheelchair dancing, Weightlifting, Swimming, and many other sporting activities you can join if you are mentally or physical disabled.

What is Accessible Tourism?

Accessible Tourism, as defined by Darcy and Dickson (2009, p34);

• Accessible tourism is the ongoing endeavor to ensure tourist destinations, products and services are accessible to all people, regardless of their physical limitations, disabilities or age.
• Accessible tourism encompasses publicly and privately owned tourist locations.
• Accessible tourism enables people with access requirements, including mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive dimensions of access, to function independently and with equity and dignity through the delivery of universally designed tourism products, services and environments.

This definition is inclusive of all people including those traveling with children in prams, people with disabilities and seniors.

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Noting the obstacles that persons with disabilities or those with other access requirements face in taking advantage of fundamental aspects of travel, senior United Nations (UN) officials urge policy-makers, travel planners and companies that work with persons with disabilities to work together to make travel more accessible.

• Lack of well-adapted hotel rooms
• Lack of accessible airport transfer
• Lack of wheelchair accessible vehicles
• Lack of accessible restaurants, bars, etc.
• Inaccessible, or only partly accessible, web sites
• Lack of adapted toilets in restaurants and public places
• Inaccessible streets (cars parking on the sidewalk, etc.)
• Lack of professional staff capable of informing and advising about accessibility issues
• Lack of disability equipment (wheelchairs, bath chairs, toilet raisers, electric scooters)
• Lack of reliable information about a specific attraction's level of accessibility (church, castle, exhibition, etc.)