The Hotel Industry in the Metropolitan Region of Rio De Janeiro: An Analysis of the Legacy of Accessibility in Civil Construction Projects Post Mega Events

Carlos Alberto Soares, Orlando Longo, Luciane Alcoforado, Thiago Ramos and Noelle Camello
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Carlos Alberto Soares: Engineering School, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói 24210-240, Brazil
Orlando Longo: Engineering School, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói 24210-240, Brazil
Luciane Alcoforado: Engineering School, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói 24210-240, Brazil
Thiago Ramos: Engineering School, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói 24210-240, Brazil
Noelle Camello: Engineering School, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói 24210-240, Brazil

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: This article aims to analyze the civil construction projects of the hotel industry in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through statistical modeling, regarding the issue of accessibility. The key point of the study was to diagnose how these hotel construction projects were prepared to receive disabled tourists during the period of Mega events. The methodology used is based on an analysis of the data obtained through the Inventory of the Tourist Offer of the State of Rio de Janeiro in the counties of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói, applied to the quantitative of approximately 400 hotel units. From the point of view of civil construction projects, an accurate diagnosis of accessibility was possible, pointing to the development of a benchmarking model. The relevance of the study is also to contribute to raising awareness of the tourist and civil engineering markets relating to people with disabilities or reduced mobility and the possibility of reversing the current scenario in Rio de Janeiro, since it can be emphasized that the investigated hotels do not show the necessary accessibility, due to the small number of hotels that reach the accessibility requirements of Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT NBR 9050: 2015). For civil construction, there is the accurate confirmation that the hotel industry of the Metropolitan Region is not accessible. For society in general, it has been observed that the Mega events that occurred in the city did not leave a legacy of accessibility.

Keywords: construction projects of hotels; hotel industry; NBR 9050: 2015; accessibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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