Avaliação da acessibilidade em hotéis: métodos de mensuração

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Gualberto Filho, Antonio
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Arquitetura e Urbanismo; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Avaliação da acessibilidade; Accessibility assessment; Avaliação de hotéis; Idosos; Deficientes; Hotels evaluation; Elderly; Disabled; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7474

The present study aims at confirming the possibility of quantitative and impersonal accessibility of the buildings for persons with disabilities. The importance of this issue can be highlighted mainly by the global movement for social inclusion of the disabled and the growing elderly population, who are prone to physical disabilities. After proceeding literature review, we analyzed various methods of evaluating accessibility at use in Brazil and other countries, in order to learn about their methodologies and results. We have come to the conclusion that the approach was largely qualitative and grounded in the moral judgment of the evaluators, not allowing the comparison between the compliance of the physical means of accessibility and technical standards or between the buildings analyzed. After this conclusion, we examined the pros and cons of the methods under analysis, proposing a new method, based on the Brazilian technical norms of accessibility and a quantitative structure. The method herein proposed was applied to measure the accessibility of the hotels on the coastline of the city of João Pessoa, who host a considerable number of aged guests. The choice of hotels as a target for evaluation is linked to the emblematic character they have in terms of life quality and cultural development of the elderly and disabled guests in general. The result found shows that, through a numerical indicator, it is possible to evaluate quantitatively and impersonally the degree of accessibility of buildings, allowing comparison and indication of improvement measures.