{"id":10178,"date":"2018-03-19T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.danilodolci.org\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2019-02-25T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:43:31","slug":"tour4all-lithuanian-exempla-accessible-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danilodolci.org\/en\/news\/tour4all-lithuanian-exempla-accessible-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour4all: Lithuanian exempla of accessible tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"How to\u00a0support tourist operators in acquiring skills<\/strong>\u00a0in the field of the\u00a0accessible tourism<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Here the L\u017dNS<\/span> exempla of accessible tourism<\/strong> among the Tour4all project.<\/p>\n

Lithuanian Association of People with Disabilities<\/a> (L\u017dNS) years cooperates with governmental, non-governmental, private institutions, and companies which work in Tourism sector \u2013 Tourism Department, Tourism Associations, Department of Cultural Heritage, and others, for several years already. The representatives of L\u017dNS are the members of Lithuanian Tourism Council. This cooperation gives possibility to speak about people with disabilities as the users of tourism services. There is still a common myth in Lithuania that people with disabilities do not travel and to make the touristic objects accessible costs a lot of money but it does not provide an economical benefit. Ginta \u017demaitaityt\u0117, the project coordinator of L\u017dNS, argues that quite often to make an object or a service accessible does not cost so much if at the first stages of building or reconstructing the object one thinks about accessibility. Almost everybody believes that to make the object accessible is enough. For example, if there is no information about the accessibility of the object, nobody will know about it\u2026 The lack of information complicates visiting of these objects.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other problem is that the integrate structure is needed: accessible transport or parking places for the disabled, accessible toilets, catering facilities, and places for rest.
\nWhen giving the lectures, representatives of L\u017dNS present the examples of good practises. For example,\u00a0Lithuania, the country of hillforts, already has the one hillfort (Ukmerg\u0117s region, close to Vilnius) which is\u00a0absolutely accessible for wheelchairs users. They can visit it independently. The other example \u2013 the scenic P\u016b\u010dkoriai outcrop in Vilnius which is adapted for visitors with the movement disabilities (terraces, stairs,\u00a0wheelchair ramps, parking, information boards). By the way, after the adaptation this outcrop is included in the destinations which are recommend for cyclists.
\nThis cooperation lets to change the attitude of tourism professionals, expand their view and present the\u00a0projects of Lithuanian Association of People with Disabilities, the project TOUR4ALL as well.<\/p>\n\n\t\t