Around 93 percent of disabled delegates continue to encounter barriers when attending events, according to landmark research by The Business of Events and ICC Wales, supported by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Events.  

The Dubai Accessible Tourism International Summit which took place in Dubai on January 12, called for joint international cooperation to make service facilities such as airports, airlines, hotels, various means of transportation and communication, websites, shopping malls and other facilities and services, friendly to ‘People of Determination’ whose number is expected to double to two billion by 2050 from the current one billion, according to the statistics of the World Health Organization.