{"id":10165,"date":"2017-07-07T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.danilodolci.org\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2022-03-13T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T10:25:36","slug":"tour4all-accessible-tourism-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danilodolci.org\/en\/news\/tour4all-accessible-tourism-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour4All: Accessible Tourism for All"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tour4All:How to support professionals in acquiring competences in the field of accessible tourism for disabled persons?<\/p>\n

On 30 June 2017, at Moltivolti<\/a>, a famous cultural hub in the heart of\u00a0Palermo, the Multiplier Event entitled \u201cAccessible Tourism for All\u201d was held within the\u00a0scope of the project Tour4All \u2013 Development of curricula on Accessible Tourism for\u00a0VET Tourism Courses.<\/p>\n

The event aimed to present the first results that the project team had\u00a0developed to the local public.
\nThe project seeks to develop a training module on Accessible Tourism, to be soon available\u00a0on an online platform, in order to bridge the training gap in the VET sector. Tour4All wants
\ntherefore to create a pan-European platform where all the VET trainers, students and tourism professionals can get more technical know-how, enrich their operative instruments, and
\nsubsequently provide better touristic experiences for all customers.
\nDuring the meeting, Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci presented the work conducted\u00a0in the first phase of the project, including needs analysis; collection of case studies
\nand good practices benchmarking of existing VET curricula for Accessible Training in participating\u00a0countries; definition of the Curricula for VET Tourism Courses on Accessible Tourism)
\nand the relative achievements.
\nThe event was attended by 21 participants and it had the pleasure to welcome the valuable\u00a0intervention of Annalisa Riggio, founder of Bookingbility, a new platform created to map
\nreceptive structures and facilitate direct bookings of accommodation adapted for disabled\u00a0people and guests with special needs. The event has been a
\ngood opportunity for stakeholders to introduce and exchange good practices at a local level\u00a0and to know the needs and interests emerged at the research stage of the project and the
\nfuture perspectives in this field.
\nFinally, good practices on accessible tourism were introduced, by showing the activities that\u00a0a local association A.S.D. Salvatore Balistreri<\/em>\u00a0organizes at local level to improve the\u00a0accessibility of people with disability to local touristic paths.
\nThe event was concluded with an enjoyable aperitif party with catering offered by CSC\u00a0Danilo Dolci, during which participants could continue to network and exchange ideas in a
\nmore personal manner.
\nFrom the evaluations filled in by the participants, all of them rated that they were \u201csatisfied\u201d\u00a0and \u201ccompletely satisfied\u201d: they found the results of the research very useful and also they
\nwere interested in the next steps of the project, asking to participate into the next phase of the piloting. Finally, according to the questionnaires collected during the event, both the
\norganization of the Multiplier event and the interventions of CSC\u2019s speakers and Ms. Riggio\u00a0were really appreciated: this has been a chance for all participants involved to exchange their
\nknowledge and contacts, allowing to improve the collaboration among the organizations\u00a0which attended the event.
\nTour4All is financed by Erasmus+ Programme \u2013 Key Action 2: Strategic Partnership|VET.
\nThe project is enriched by the collaboration of a diverse partnership composed by 9 partners:<\/p>\n