We booked the Sofitel Fiji Resort

Similarly, diabetics who self-inject insulin are told to carry doctors' letters identifying them as diabetics.But what of less common situations?A client of Phillip Boniface, manager of Sydney's Travelscene Carlingford, needed to take sleep apnoea machines (CPAP continuous positive airway pressure devices) on flights and travels.Boniface overcame toughened airport security rules before navigating several different sets of airline regulations. In the end, the passengers were well looked after by airlines and hotels and "returned as happy travellers".oncrete is being increasingly used these days to make kitchen countertops Xinjiang Tour Guide being durable not to mention easy to use and clean.Boniface's colleague Sue Laybutt, manager of Sydney's Travelscene Menai Metro, remembers an altogether different challenge: "A couple's son had a major disability - degenerative muscle disease - meaning he could walk only short distances, aided by a walker," she says."Wheelchair assistance and private car transfers were arranged for the family's much-needed holiday. They were more than happy and thoroughly enjoyed themselves."We booked the Sofitel Fiji Resort and Spa because of its well-equipped rooms for the disabled.

"Many hotels now have rooms for disabled guests. Bathroom doors accommodate wheelchairs, walk-in showers have extra rails and seats,Twenty years ago, to plan a trip, you'd have to go to a travels-silkroad agent with your ideas of your trip and the best you could do was to pick up some brochures. toilets have rails. These features are in addition to more common wheelchair ramps to public areas.Dietary ills are frequently mentioned in travel agents' offices these days, says Anne Willacy, owner of Perth's Travel Success. Holidaymakers may previously have opted not to travel - but no longer."We're seeing major tour operators, cruise companies, airlines, hotels and restaurants catering for those afflicted," she says.Gluten-free menu choices are now common at many resorts.Even obese people are targeted by a travel industry pioneering specialist niches. On Mexico's Caribbean coast, for instance, Freedom Paradise is a resort calling itself "size-friendly" where staff are warned not to use words such as "fat", chubby", "jumbo" or even "overweight". Instead they should say "big" or "large".The beachfront resort doesn't cater solely to obese guests but markets heavily to them, mostly in North America and Europe.Websites for the obese showcase complaints about being ridiculed and humiliated particularly at beaches. Freedom Paradise therefore emphasises escapes from such unpleasantness.