When Gurugram resident Neha Arora (41) was growing up, family holidays were not a given. Her mother uses a wheelchair, her father is blind, has hearing loss and Parkinson’s disease . As a young professional, she assumed money was the barrier. “I thought once I started earning, I could save and take my parents travelling,” she recalled. “But I realised it wasn’t money that was stopping us, it was the lack of accessibility, facilities, infrastructure for the disabled and elderly plus societal stigma around disabled people travelling.”

From half-finished ramps at heritage sites to hotels with token ‘accessible rooms’, India’s travel industry has long overlooked travellers with disabilities and seniors. With the country’s elderly population projected to surge 41% by 2031, the absence of bar

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