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By KYRIAKOS TSELEGIDIS

The European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) has applied through national implementing measures since 28 June 2025 to specified products and services relevant to travel. This paper examines the relationship between those legal duties and the conditions required for an inclusive tourism experience. It combines doctrinal analysis of EU and international instruments with a purposive, non-systematic synthesis of 14 peer-reviewed tourism studies, selected for their relevance to accessibility, digital information and the traveler journey. The provisions of the Directive are mapped against five stages of travel and distinguished from technical-standard provisions and voluntary management measures. The assessment identifies concentrated regulatory coverage in e-commerce and selected passenger-transport functions, but no general EU-wide physical-accessibility regime for accommodation and attractions under the Act. It develops a three-level interpretive framework separating regulatory accessibility, functional accessibility and lived inclusion, and specifies different units of assessment and forms of evidence for each level. Particular attention is given to EN 301 549 V4.1.1 (2026), its adoption of WCAG 2.2 and its status relative to standards cited in EU law. The paper offers an approach to evaluating accessibility across interconnected tourism services without treating managerial recommendations as legal obligations or conceptual findings as empirically validated outcomes.

By Maria Oroian

Travelers may endorse sustainable tourism yet hesitate when their choices require clear information, additional effort, or acceptable comfort. This exploratory cross-sectional study examines how sustainability information orientation and general pro-sustainability orientation are associated with stated non-price sustainable travel intentions among 163 Romanian residents with recent tourism experience. Recruitment began through student groups and continued via participant-led link sharing, producing a young, highly educated non-probability sample that was not limited to students. Three descriptive, content-based indices were formed from questionnaire items and are not treated as validated scales. In a blockwise multiple linear regression, sustainability information orientation was positively associated with the intention index after adjustment for gender, age group, education, and general pro-sustainability orientation (B = .626, HC3 SE = .103, p travelers .

By Ramazan Karaman, Hayriye Duman

This study aims to evaluate the evolution and intellectual structure of the literature on intangible cultural heritage in the field of gastronomy over time through bibliometric analysis. The research dataset was obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection database and includes a total of 3,155 articles and review studies indexed in SCI, SSCI, ESCI, and AHCI between 2006 and 2025. The data were analyzed using VOSviewer software to reveal publication trends, prominent countries, influential authors and journals, citation relationships, collaboration networks, and thematic transformation in the research area. The analysis results show a significant increase in the number of publications, especially since the mid-2010s, and indicate that intangible cultural heritage research in the context of gastronomy is becoming an increasingly visible and institutionalized academic field. Furthermore, the findings reveal that the field is not limited to gastronomy alone; it has an interdisciplinary structure that develops in interaction with subfields of cultural studies, sustainability, tourism, anthropology, and the social sciences. When evaluated by country, Spain and Italy are among the leading countries in terms of both publication productivity and citations. However, the increase in academic contributions from developing countries indicates that the research field has a wider geographical spread. Keyword association and thematic mapping results show that the research focus has changed over time. While conservation and preservation themes were prominent in early studies, current research shows that topics such as sustainability, local development, food identity, cultural tourism, community participation, and sociocultural transformation have gained importance. In conclusion, this study examines the development of intangible cultural heritage research in gastronomy from a holistic perspective and provides a guiding framework for future interdisciplinary studies.