Open Doors: Extending Hospitality to Travelers with Disabilities
Group 1 Project Open Doors: Extending Hospitality to Travelers with Disabilities
Charles Carillon,
Erica Kalilikane,
Bethany Waters
This report serves to review the research completed by Eric Lipp and the Open Doors Organization (ODO). Through familiarity with the issue, analysis, and sound recommendations, we conclude that the research was sound and beneficial to a very large demographic of people with disabilities.
MGMT 3350-Business Research Methods
Dr. Aytun Ozturk
SPRING 2012
DRAFT 16 April 2012
Introduction:
Construction worker Eric Pearson was doing his typical nightly duties while his company was paving a major highway in Colorado on a clear, summer night in July 2002. He had just come from taking core samples from one side of the road and parked his work truck, lights still flashing, off of the frontage road out of the way of the big machines that were laying and pressing asphalt on the other side of the road. Little did he know that a van, whose headlights were off, was speeding toward him until he had been hit by the vehicle and subsequently thrown 30 feet into a ditch after stepping out of his truck. The van sped away from the scene and just as Eric had not heard the van coming his way, the pavers had been too loud for his fellow employees to recognize the incident had happened either. Eric lived, but he is now permanently disabled. He no longer has a left leg and can barely walk with this condition. Eric was fortunate to be born without a disability, but he is now part of the millions of people who are disabled in some form. “The Disability Statistics Rehabilitation, Research and Training Center at the University of California-San Francisco said that there were about 61 million disabled persons in 1992, or 24 percent of the population” (Worsnop 1108). Since then that number has increased due to the fact that the term “disabled” has now been broadened to include various other
Charles Carillon,
Erica Kalilikane,
Bethany Waters
This report serves to review the research completed by Eric Lipp and the Open Doors Organization (ODO). Through familiarity with the issue, analysis, and sound recommendations, we conclude that the research was sound and beneficial to a very large demographic of people with disabilities.
MGMT 3350-Business Research Methods
Dr. Aytun Ozturk
SPRING 2012
DRAFT 16 April 2012
Introduction:
Construction worker Eric Pearson was doing his typical nightly duties while his company was paving a major highway in Colorado on a clear, summer night in July 2002. He had just come from taking core samples from one side of the road and parked his work truck, lights still flashing, off of the frontage road out of the way of the big machines that were laying and pressing asphalt on the other side of the road. Little did he know that a van, whose headlights were off, was speeding toward him until he had been hit by the vehicle and subsequently thrown 30 feet into a ditch after stepping out of his truck. The van sped away from the scene and just as Eric had not heard the van coming his way, the pavers had been too loud for his fellow employees to recognize the incident had happened either. Eric lived, but he is now permanently disabled. He no longer has a left leg and can barely walk with this condition. Eric was fortunate to be born without a disability, but he is now part of the millions of people who are disabled in some form. “The Disability Statistics Rehabilitation, Research and Training Center at the University of California-San Francisco said that there were about 61 million disabled persons in 1992, or 24 percent of the population” (Worsnop 1108). Since then that number has increased due to the fact that the term “disabled” has now been broadened to include various other
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