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Scott

Gender: Male
Age: 54
Location: United States, California, San Jose
Connection: No connection
Member since: 01/12/2008
Profile last updated: 01/12/2008
Current Status: Offline
Network: 2 Friends

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Disability Community - Member Type: Person with a Disability
Disability Type: Physical
Disability Name: Quad
Disability Description: Incomplete quad at C 3/4
Assistive Technology: Wheelchair - Manual

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Relationship Status: Married
I'm looking for: Business Partners
Height: 5'11" - 6' (179 cm - 183 cm)
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Overview:

Dr. Scott Rains writes daily on travel and issues in the tourism industry of interest to people with disabilities. His work appears online at www.RollingRains.com and http://withtv.typepad.com/weblog/travel/ . Rains’ articles have also appeared in New Mobility, Emerging Horizons, Contours, Accessible Portugal, Audacity, Travel and Transitions, eTur Brazil, Turismo Polibea, [with]TV, Design for All India, and Disaboom among others.

For his research on the topic of Universal Design and the travel and hospitality industry he was appointed as Resident Scholar at the Center for Cultural Studies of the University of California Santa Cruz (2004-05).

He is active as a consultant and speaker. His presentations include the pre-conference workshop on travel and Universal Design at the Adaptive Environments Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2005), the keynote address at the first International Accessible Tourism Conference in Taipei, Taiwan (2005), and a plenary presentation at the NICAN conference on Easy Travel in Perth, Australia (2004). He was co-convener of the second International Accessible Tourism Conference hosted by the United Nations November 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand and was consultant for the September 2007 World Assembly on the U. N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Seoul, South Korea. Rains’ scholarly work includes editorship of the first body of research on travel and disability in the field of Disability Studies with the publication of the 2006 (Vol. 2 Issue 2) of the Review of Disability Studies. He has been invited to edit a follow-up volume after contributing to the Disability Studies Quarterly (March 2007). Dr. Rains is currently editing an anthology on Inclusive Tourism in Spanish and Portuguese for the May 2008 Turismo para Todos Conference of the Inter-American Institute on Disability and Inclusive Development and a special issue of the journal Design for All India on advances in Universal Design in Thailand.

He consults with travel agents and tour operators worldwide. Dr. Rains is currently working with a three-nation accessible tourism consortium (Turismo para Todos) in South America, a consortium involving a municipality and several universities in Thailand, and serves as a Resource Person on tourism to UNESCAP. His daily column is the Rolling Rains Report on Travel, Disability & Universal Design at www.RollingRains.com.

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Professional Area: Travel/Entertainment
Educational Level: PhD/Post Doctoral
Job Title: Publisher
Company: The Rolling Rains Report
Company Website: http://www.RollingRains.com
Areas of Expertise: Universal Design, IT, education
Current Status: Other Self-employment
My Blog, Websites, or Webpages: http://www.RollingRains.com, http://claimid.com/srains, http://withtv.typepad.com/weblog/scott_rainsrolling_rains_report/index.html

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