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We help travel, tourism, hospitality, cultural, civic, and public-facing organizations turn accessibility into trust, better experiences, and long-term business growth.


For seven years, Accessible Travel NYC has worked with destinations, cultural institutions, public-facing organizations, and tourism partners to embed accessibility as business strategy — centered in Disability Pride and Disability Joy.


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Building Accessible Travel with Pride & Joy

Education & Speaking

Build staff, leadership, and audience understanding of accessibility as business strategy, visitor experience, culture, and trust.


Keynotes, ERG sessions, staff trainings, professional development sessions, conference talks, and visitor-facing multi-session trainings.


Select partners include New York Botanical Garden, SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, Visit Flanders, and the New York Accessible Travel Conference.


Strategy & Advisory

We help organizations identify where accessibility, communication, visitor experience, marketing, and building trust can grow your business.


Services include organization strategy, visitor experience reviews, accessibility marketing strategy, communications guidance, and consultation-developed multi-year partnerships.


Select partners include NYC Tourism + Conventions, New Orleans & Company and Queens Economic Development Corporation.

Programs & Community

2025 NYSTIA Award Winner — Excellence in Tourism Equity & Inclusion.


We create public-facing Disability Pride experiences that build audience development, brand trust with disabled people, and staff empowerment.


Disability Pride public programs are co-led by Lakshmee and disabled artist Annie Nishwani Lachhman and includes art-making, storytelling, family programs, museum activations, garden activations, and community-centered experiences.


Select partners include Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York Botanical Garden, and Whitney Museum.


Storytelling & Content Partnerships

We help organizations tell accessibility stories through lived experience, public trust, and authentic disability representation.


Our storytelling is produced with a multi-generational family — disabled, non-apparent disabled, immigrant, caregiver, child, parent, and sibling.


Services include content partnerships, video, photo, social media campaigns, editorial content, and accessibility messaging.


Select partners include SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and NYC Tourism + Conventions.

Award-winning storytelling:

Webby Award — People’s Voice, Social Impact / DEI, with Lincoln Center, 2023
Webby Honoree — SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, 2025
Signal Award — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frame of Mind podcast, Access to Inspiration


Selected Recognition & Press

  • 2025 NYSTIA Award — Excellence in Tourism Equity & Inclusion, for Accessible Travel: Disability Pride, Disability Joy, Exists™
  • Sapolin Public Accommodations Award — Mayor Eric Adams, 2022
  • PCMA Global Visionary Award — Advocate of the Year, 2023
  • Press featured CBS News, and Travel + Leisure


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Where Lakshmee Serves

  • Board Member, New York City Tourism + Conventions — DEIA Co-Chair (2021-present)
  • Director of DEIA, NYPCMA, the Professional Convention Management Association New York Chapter (2022-present)
  • MTA Transit Accessibility Advisory Committee (2022-25)
  • Advisory Committee Member — Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Storm King, Asian American Arts Alliance and AbleNews