Disability, Accessibility and Events: Curated Collection (2000–2024) and a Research Agenda

In events and tourism, our understanding of accessibility has evolved from how an event is accessed in terms of factors like travel infrastructure and entry costs, to who it is accessible to, such as people with disability. This curated collection reviews those articles published in Event Management from 2000 to 2024 that have addressed accessibility by people with disability. Even though people with disability conservatively account for approximately 15% of the world’s population, only eight articles, or just 0.82% of all articles in this journal focused on people with disability. Of these only two engaged with people with disability in the research. Considering this substantial underrepresentation gap, a research agenda is proposed to help researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address this market to support event sustainability across social, economic and environmental perspectives. This agenda is considered though the lens of the temporal extension of the socioecological framework (TESEF) with a whole-of-journey approach required for the group.