Scott Rains

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, 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 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.