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Entrepreneurial attempts play a key role to make behaviors in a global connected context. In this attempt, it is crucial to manage diversities and extend the capacity of the understanding and knowledge on the sensitivity for making sustainable and smart societies. This research aims to evaluate the perceptions of members of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) on sensitivity training and sheds a light on description, content and benefits on sensitivity and its' training in order to create mutual understanding from life experiences on different types of NGOs. As qualitative research was employed in this research, interview and word association methods were used as data collection methods. As the study group, 35 members of various NGOs participated the research and their reflections on sensitivity training as a managerial and organizational perspective were analyzed using interview and word association methods coding through content analysis. In this respect, for data analysis, computer-aided qualitative data analysis software (RQDA) was conducted that R package was used. This research revealed firstly that the most frequently mentioned words for sensitivity definition were empathy which is related with interpersonal relationships and emotional intelligence (EQ); self-knowledge which is related with awareness and conscious; and the viewpoints of oneself like perception and bias. Secondly, to examine the suggestions of the different NGO participants suggesting the managers for raising awareness on sensitivity among their employers in a workplace, themes were identified as managers' own personal approach that is being their own example, trainings and the approach of the human resources department. Thirdly, the benefits of an education for sensitivity skill to sustainable smart societies for global citizenship and its contribution to the development of the sustainable smart societies are overlooked. The main themes were collected under the headings of communication, productivity and respected organization. In the light of the findings it can be stated that with sensitivity training in the workplace, social relations and group atmosphere improve and at the referred point, when benefits of sensitivity training is overlooked,very useful results are reached for individuals, groups and organizations that are directly related for sustainable and smart societies. The sensitivity training is an activity to determine the tasks to be carried out in order to achieve certain goals, to determine the personnel to perform this function, to determine the competencies and responsibilities and organizational relations of global citizens in smart societies. Keywords: Empathy, Global Citizenship, Management Sensitivity, Smart Society, Training

The main aim of the current study is to evaluate the opinions of the students at the departments of tourism and special education towards to the concept of sustainability of barrier-free tourism and society therefore with the light of this aim, and current study attempted to address how disabled individuals could have an access to the tourism and life opportunities as well as the challenges that they are experiencing while having an access to these opportunities, probable solutions which might be employed to cope with these challenges, universal rights of the disabled individuals about having an access and transportation in contexts barrier-free tourism practices in TRNCThe current study employed a semi-structured interview as a data collection tool. The study group of the current research consisted of 80 participants who are the students at the tourism and specialized education teaching departments at Near East University and the University of Kyrenia. Data were collected with 20 minutes face to face interviews. While performing data analysis, responses of the participants were categorized and placed to the tables and then the researcher(s) re-examined the classified data set and formed underlying themes and categories. With the light of the findings, it can be stated that education at universities, secondary and primary schools should be intensified to inject necessary information to the students regarding barrier free tourism and provision of health care services for disabled people. At the reffered point. joint commitment should be carried among ministry of education, tourism, heallth and municipalities to raise public awareness regarding barrier free tourism. Additionally media and press should design more programs regarding barrier free tourism at their broadcasting stream to raise public awareness, and in-service trainings for disabled people should be provided to employees in hotels.
Keywords: Barrier- Free Tourism, Sustainable Society, Education, Accessibility, Awareness