Over one billion people live with some kind of disability in the world. The prevalence of disability and the likelihood of elderly people becoming disabled have increased with the aging of populations. It is a fundamental right of disabled people to take part in any domain of life under equal terms with all others else. Disabled people have needs like travelling, vacationing and sightseeing in different places as other people do. It is their fundamental right to benefit from tourism services equally, hygienically, comfortably, honourably and more actively.
Accessible tourism is not a process of assimilation but a process of integration. Turkey should manage this process well to benefit from the special, important accessible tourism market adequately. Action is needed at local, national, and global levels, to remove the barriers (e.g., physical, social, behavioural, environmental) that hinder disabled people and to put into practice the necessary, neglected regulations for both the public and tourism sectors.