Convenience of achieving a software platform leading to increased travel safety for disabled persons

• Author: Tecau A.S.
• Pages: 53-60

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 10 (59) No. 1 - 2017

Convenience of achieving a software platform

leading to increased travel safety

for disabled persons

Alina Simona TECĂU1

Abstract: The paper presents the results of a qualitative marketing research, achieved by

the focus group method, one of a series of marketing researches proposed with a view to

determining the extent to which it is opportune to achieve a software platform containing a

database with safe tourist routes and images, accessible for disabled persons, which may

tested/ visualized by virtual reality.

Key-words: accessible tourism, disabled persons, security in tourism, software platform,

virtual reality, focus group

1. Introduction

This research has as its primary objective to determine the extent to which it is

opportune to achieve a software platform meant to help identify safe tourist routes,

accessible for disabled persons. These routes would be tested/ visualized by the

beneficiaries – persons with various health problems, by means of virtual reality.

The designed platform would contain a database with pictures shot from places such

as tourist attractions and institutions – information that may contribute to increasing

the safety of the tourists with special problems. Having the list of destinations and

tourist maps available, the beneficiaries (disabled persons) might test the routes they

are interested in, both by using a computer or telephone with internet access, and by

virtual reality, resorting to special 3D eyeglasses, such as Samsung Gear VR, edition

2015, or similar ones, along with one of the compatible mobile phone models. They

use Oculus technology, or a similar one, specific to video games, managing to

transpose the subjects in the virtual reality.

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, alina_tecau@unitbv.ro