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Emily Rose Yates -Travel for All; How to embrace Access and Inclusion for Disabled Travellers.\u00a0The first speaker of Friday started with the stark statistic that in a Scope survey 66% of those\u00a0surveyed said they would actively avoid disabled people.<\/p>\n
For herself, at age 16 she was put forward for a trip to South Africa with a Charity JOLT with other\u00a0young disabled people. This included having to get to the top of a high sand dune, and getting\u00a0into cages in the sea, surrounded by sharks.<\/p>\n
Emily started at University in 2012 and took the opportunity to go and study in Australia for 12\u00a0months. She met one other wheelchair user – but the girl didn’t want to know her, thinking that if\u00a0she got involved with other disabled people that would make her look more disabled. Eventually\u00a0they had a proper conversation about what Emily had done, and where she had been, leading to\u00a0an enduring friendship.<\/p>\n
Emily applied to be a Games maker at the 2012 Games and was allocated wheelchair fencing.\u00a0She was asked to join a press conference, where she sat next to Seb Coe, who used her quote\u00a0that the Paralympics lifted the cloud for disabled people.\u00a0After the games, she told Seb Coe she wanted to go to Rio to make it more accessible for 2016,\u00a0and he provided some contacts.<\/p>\n
She was invited to Rio, and give a presentation about accessibility. One of attendees worked\u00a0for MetroRio and invited Emily to work for them to increase accessibility. By 2016 they had\u00a0managed to make 34 out of 36 Metro stations accessible to disabled people.<\/p>\n
When she retumed home she tweeted Lonely Planet asking whether they had thought about\u00a0doing an accessibility guide for Rio. They invited her to do so and she went back to Rio to\u00a0produce one, which was launched at British House during 2016 Games.
\nWhen she asked about doing other guides the response was no, because only 20% of people are\u00a0disabled!<\/p>\n
As a result Emily set up her own company – Globe Hopper Guides, with her boyfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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