Accessible all areas: Travelling with a disability has never been easy - but innovative companies are giving ‘all-inclusive’ holidays a whole new meaning

 Having a disability in 2022 shouldn’t hold you back. But the reality is access difficulties, cost and a lack of choice mean the able-bodied are still travelling far more than disabled holidaymakers.

The National Travel Survey carried out just before the pandemic found disabled adults in England made on average 26 per cent fewer trips and travelled 41 per cent fewer miles than the non-disabled.

Thankfully, some innovative tour operators, airlines, hotels and self-catering companies are trying to redress the balance. Here’s a few places to look.

By the age of 18, Amar Latif had lost 95 per cent of his sight. He went to Canada anyway, for his last year of university, then went jungle trekking in Nicaragua for a BBC documentary about travellers with disabilities. Now Amar runs his own tour company where, uniquely, each group trip has a mix of blind and visually impaired holidaymakers plus sighted travellers.

Each day, a sight-impaired person is paired up with a sighted group member, who will describe the sights in destinations such as the U.S. Deep South, Armenia, Menorca and Northern Ireland. Sighted travellers get up to 50 per cent off.

Even able-bodied people can sometimes find a safari holiday challenging, but 2 By 2 is one of the few UK operators which offers trips to see the Big Five  leopard, lion, buffalo, elephant and rhinoceros.

The company has been organising wheelchair-accessible safaris to Africa for more than 20 years. It offers tailor-made trips to Kenyan, Namibian and South African game reserves. Vehicles fitted with ramps for power chairs are used on journeys into the bush.

A typical seven-night stay in Kruger National Park, South Africa, costs from £1,395pp for seven nights, excluding international flights.