TravelAbility’s Emerging Markets Summit will take place June 5-7, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. This expanded summit will embrace Sustainability and DE&I, two emerging markets that will drive tourism growth over the next decade.
The following four sessions have just been added to the agenda:
How My Life as a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Helped Inform My Role at Disney
In honor of CODA winning the Academy Award for best picture this year, we have our very own CODA, Mark Jones, Manager, Accessibility and Services for Guests with Disabilities, Walt Disney Resorts, who will speak about his own life as a CODA and the benefits that experience has offered to his work at Walt Disney World.
Smooth Sailing!
How Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Celebrity Cruises, one of their subsidiary brands, are addressing inclusion using distinctly unique approaches. For example, Celebrity has hired world renown photographers, including Annie Lebowitz, for an advertising series that includes people with disabilities on vacationing called “All-Inclusive Photo Project (AIPP).
Presenter: Ron Petit, Director of Accessibility, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
What Happened When a Hotel Manager Spent the Day in a Wheelchair?
Accompanied by a wheelchair-using travel agent, this executive experienced his property in a different light and found new ways to implement small accessibility tweaks that greatly improved the experience for guests with disabilities.
Presenter: Jim Heeres, Assistant General Manager, The Alfond Inn
DE&I in Storytelling & Destination Marketing
Destination marketing includes telling the stories about your destination to diverse audiences, but it also includes telling the many stories of your destination, often stories that aren’t told. This session will look at the ways to expand your storytelling lens to create content for diverse audiences with different needs, but also stories that are more representative of your destination and/or travel product.
This session will discuss:
- The diversity content creators
- Content creation for diverse audiences and what they need
- Guidelines for written content and photography
- Examples of work in this space
Registration for TravelAbility’s Emerging Markets Summit is now open. To reserve your spot, visit the TravelAbility website.
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