Shane Hryhorec and the mission to make tourism accessible for everyone
The wheel around the world is not only about traveling with a disability, but also to travel in general – the joys of being out of our regions of comfort, disappointments and unexpected challenges.
However, someone in the wheelchair in an ordinary day – the things we give – the things that we should encounter are sometimes beyond understanding. Shane’s abuse can be watched more than a section SurvivorUnfortunately.
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Each episode is unexpected, full of wrace-in-mind disappointments. Ticket windows with one step. “Accessible” ramps that are dangerous. Houses accessed through gravel roads that cannot navigate in wheelchairs. It seizes an airline battery in South Korea, so that it cannot strengthen its wheelchair. Another forgets to put the service dog into a reservation.
And then there are things that get the patience of a saint. On the MSC trip, the so -called accessible cabin is so narrow that he cannot take himself into; He can’t step into the toilet on a trip to Disney. For everyone who tries to live independently, this is deeply humiliating.
What makes Shane really angry is the lack of interest that it usually hit the hotel management. Although it specifies an accessible room when making a hotel reservation, it is not rare to find out that none of them come and have none.
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However, he made progress with Booking.com, which brings new systems to ensure that messages are received.
But something that really shocks me and confronts me with disabled travelers is the number of talented people who reserve accessible rooms, because they know that these rooms are wider. When only 2 percent of the inventory is left aside, it is in the cold, sometimes fully outdoors.
What Shane really wants to see is a TV travel program with a disabled server. Currently, these programs are unfortunately missing in inclusive content and vision. “Someone come and ‘Hey, we want you on our TV and I would like to say that the budget to travel and create content. This would be a dream.”
70 percent of Shane’s audience are non -disabled people. “People in the world are only affected for other people, or he says. “This is good because this is the thing that disrupts and creates awareness. Learning and experiencing the opening of people and this is my morality behind what I do.
“If you are an older person and you don’t travel much and whatever a looseness or anyway, if you see me in a wheelchair, if you jump to a horse, if you ride on the top of Fuji Mountain. OH, F —– [you think]. ‘I will do it too’. “
