Studies have identified constraints with the way that accessible accommodation information is documented and marketed. Yet, no research has investigated the criteria that people with disabilities determine as ‘important ’ to selecting accommodation and their preference for presenting this information. This paper presents the results of a survey to determine the relative importance of room selection criteria through the development of a 55-item Hotel Accessibility Scale. Four information formats were then presented to ascertain the preferences of the respondents. The results suggest that while socio-demographic variables offered some insight into criteria selection, the most significant explanation for criteria selection and information preferences were the dimensions of disability and level of support needs. The preferred format of accessible accommodation information provision was based on a combination of textual, floorplan and digital photography. The management implications suggest that detailed information provision using this format has benefits for accommodation stock yield and social sustainability.

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This paper presents a compression method that exploits pseudo-chaotic systems, to be applied to True Random Bit Generators (TRBGs). The theoretical explanation of the proposed compression scheme required the projection of some results achieved within the Ergodic Theory for chaotic systems on the world of digital pseudo-chaos. To this aim, a weaker and more general interpretation of the Shadowing Theory has been proposed, focusing on probability measures, rather than on single chaotic trajecto-ries. The design of the compression scheme has been theoretically dis-cussed in order to assure the final entropy of the compressed TRBG to be arbitrarily close to the maximum limit of 1 bit/time-step. The pro-posed solution requires extremely low-complex hardware circuits for being implemented, assures a constant throughput and is based on theoretical results of general validity. 1