This article addresses the study of people with mobility disabilities, analyzing their inclusion in both the social sphere and functional diversity within the areas with the greatest accessibility to cultural tourism. The main objective of this study is to understand and justify the visits of people with disabilities to tourism in Chile, analyzing the underlying causes of this phenomenon and how research can contribute to improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in their leisure time. This allows us to know and justify the different causes of Chilean tourism, according to the documentary review to support the quality of life of people with disabilities in the pastime. In this work, a series of analyses is proposed in different tourist spaces of the National System of Protected Wild Areas (of Chile), starting from the number of visitors with disabilities, depending on a select group of Chilean tourism; however, all people who enjoy the activities are available and not reserved. It is not an easy task to generate available results through the activity of accessible cultural tourism. In some criteria of the cause of disability, such as deficits (or deficiencies) in some disability type (physical, sensory, intellectual, psychosocial, and multiple), the different characteristics of functional diversity and obstacles create a greater need to transform equality for all types of tourist activities. In conclusion, they allow us to approach visitors with disabilities to observe and argue for cultural quality as strategies for participation and inclusive tourism.

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