Join us for a live presentation and interactive discussion
October 2026
October 22, 2026
Join us as we learn how a grassroots campaign is working to make travel searchable for all disabilities, and what your organization can do to build a more accessible travel program.
Date and Time
- Thursday October 22, 2026 3:00 PM CT
- Presenter: Andrew Slaiby
- Online via Zoom
How to Create an Accessible Travel Program
One of the fundamental issues with accessible travel is rooted in the inability to confidently know what will be available when we travel. Over the past 4 years a grassroots campaign led by industry and accessibility leaders has been underway to make travel searchable for all disabilities. Come listen about the mission and what you can do to help make travel searchable for all disabilities.
Takeaways:
- Accessible market value for the hospitality industry
- New accessibility standards for the hospitality industry
- What your company can do to make your corporate travel program more accessible
Meet Your Presenters
Andrew is a Corporate Travel Manager and a leading voice for accessible travel, whose work gained national recognition in 2022 when his GBTA Ladders team was named a finalist for a project on why searchability is essential to accessible travel. He launched the TAMS Advancing Accessibility in Travel campaign in 2023, interviewing people representing more than 30 disabilities, then consulted for the American Hotel & Lodging Association in 2024 and published 22 new accessibility standards in 2025, earning the TAMS Emerging Leader Award. Now in 2025 his work continues thru interviewing travelers with disabilities and speaking across the United States about what they have taught him, along with developing a new platform aimed at making travel searchable for all disabilities.