As viagens e o turismo pelas lentes do deficiente físico praticante de esporte adaptado: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The present study has as objective to describe and analyze the perceptions that the people with disabilities, those part of the Centro Integrado dos Portadores de Deficiência Física de Caxias do Sul-RS-Brasil CIDeF present in relation to the sites, while in their condition as athletes, they have been. As they travel to compete, between the games, they act as tourists and enjoy the infrastructure that is used to make the sports possible like bus, train, lodging and others. The theoretical base was built with the intention to open the discussion to some concepts related to the people with disabilities: their context in the society, the problem of exclusion, the labeling, and the problem of accessibility that these people have to move in the most different places. Their participation in the leisure activities and tourism, their relation between the sport tourism travels is also discussed. The methodology presents itself as a study under ethnographic features, with a qualitative focus. It is a case study, once that the participants are part of the CIDeF sportive group. To collect information the following instruments were used: documental analyses, observation and interview. The description, of the information, made it necessary to create some categories: profile of the disabled people studied; travels and experiences the signficative places and their perception of the accessibility conditions. The study revealed that the athletes with disabilities, part of the CIDeF group, realized that traveling is very important for the quality of life. The found difficulties were, in their most part, in the form of arquitetures barriers, showing themselves as the most complicated, in the opinion of the interviewed, are the difficult accesses to the hotels bathrooms and the lack of a adapted bus.