Some of the British parents we spoke to said the challenges of taking their autistic children away on holiday were so great that they would only go on short trips (35 per cent only ever spent one or two nights away). Many did their best to avoid peak travel times and other situations in which their child might become overstimulated.
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Stress Matters has announced that it has formed a partnership with the University of Hertfordshire to conduct a survey into wellbeing within the event industry.
Since 2017, Stress Matters has been conducting research into the events industry to understand the state of wellbeing of the event professionals.
The working group includes: Allan Jepson, the chair of the Association for Events Management Education (AEME) and senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Hertfordshire; Raphaela Stadler, senior lecturer in Event Management, Tourism and Hospitality also at the University of Hertfordshire; Trudie Walters, president of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies and research fellow in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand; and the Stress Matters team led by Laura Capell-Abra, founder of Stress Matters.