'We need a vacation': social tourism initiatives for low-income families with children with disabilities.

Social tourism: global challenges and approaches ◽

10.1079/9781789241211.0083 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 83-95

Author(s):

Celeste Eusébio ◽

Mariana Pedrosa

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Literature Review ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Low Income ◽

Children With Disabilities ◽

Tourism Experience ◽

Travel Constraints ◽

Low Income Families ◽

Travel Decision ◽

Families With Children

Abstract The aims of this chapter are: (i) to identify the travel constraints of low-income families with children with disabilities (LIFWCD); (ii) to characterize the tourism experience of these families; (iii) to identify the benefits obtained from family trips; and (iv) to identify guidelines to develop social tourism programmes to promote the access of this market to tourism activities. To accomplish these aims, this chapter encompasses a literature review regarding social tourism initiatives, travel constraints and tourism experiences of LIFWCD and an empirical study. This empirical study was carried out with a group of Portuguese LIFWCD, specifically with parents, and with a group of social organizations that provide support to these families. The experience of the parents and their interpretation of their children's experiences are analysed, given their relevance in the travel decision-making process and during the trip.

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Improvement of the targeted social support of low-income families with children: Vologda Pilot Project

POPULATION ◽

10.19181/1561-7785-2019-00008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 106-121

Author(s):

Vyacheslav Bobkov

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Low Income ◽

Social Assistance ◽

Minimum Income ◽

Lump Sum ◽

Subsistence Minimum ◽

Regional Budget ◽

Low Income Families ◽

Families With Children ◽

Guaranteed Minimum Income

The article deals with the theoretical, methodical and practical principles of forming a new model of targeted social support of low-income families with children on the basis of guaranteed minimum income. Approbation of the new approaches to targeted social support of low-income families with children was implemented in Vologda oblast. The target representative sample was 70 families. It has been found out that after the targeted social support under the current legislation (lump-sum payments excluded), basic income in these families averaged 35.3 per cent of the differentiated equivalent subsistence minimum, thus being evidence of the inefficient state social assistance. The author has substantiated introducing additional monthly targeted social payments to parents besides the set regular payments (additional family poverty benefit) that will enable families to improve their economic sustainability. He substantiated a number of threshold values of the guaranteed minimum income that would ensure current consumption ranging from the cost food basket up to the size of the differentiated equivalent living standards of families, depending on the financial capacity of the regional budget. The guaranteed minimum income of low-income families with children averaged 54.6 per cent of the regional differentiated equivalent subsistence minimum. There have been developed methodical recommendations for identifying untapped socio-economic potential of families as a source of raising income from employment, as well as criteria for removal of families from the recipients of targeted social assistance in the form of cash benefits. Proposals on correcting the current legislation on the state social support have been formulated.

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