{"id":10203,"date":"2018-09-15T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.danilodolci.org\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2018-09-15T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:50:54","slug":"tour4all-future-accessible-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danilodolci.org\/en\/news\/tour4all-future-accessible-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Concluding events of Tour4All: From Brussels to Palermo, the future of accessible tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ConcludingWhat is the state of the art of accessible tourism on a European and local level? What are policy makers, authorities and organizations doing to improve the situation? And what is the role of education such as the Tour4All course in this process? <\/em><\/p>\n

On the 6th<\/sup> of September, the Tour4All partnership organized the final conference in Brussels. The event, hosted by \u00a0Ms. Madi Sharma<\/strong> at European Economic Social Committee in Brussels, <\/strong>managed to put together different stakeholders, policy makers and partners of the project, and give a better understanding of the current state of policies and good practices in the field of accessible tourism. The project coordinator, Nuno Martins<\/strong> (CEPROF), presented the project and its relevance, after which experts from the field gave their contribution to the topic in form of a panel discussion. It became clear that on different levels, authorities and organizations do their best to improve the tourism sector to include better tourists with different types of disabilities. The interventions were inspiring and left the audience with new knowledge on the current state, a higher awareness of what tourists with a disability face in today\u2019s world, and left with a positive look for the future.<\/p>\n

After this successful conference in Brussels, it was no the turn for a more local point of view on accessible tourism. On the 13th<\/sup> of September 2018, the CSC Danilo Dolci organized the final event for the project \u201cTour4All: development of curricula on accessible tourism\u201d in Palermo under the name: Accessible Tourism: between education and local needs. The event took place at Magneti-Cowork, a co-working space in the city centre which organizes different side events, including on alternative tourism.<\/p>\n

The municipality of Palermo, representatives from the tourism sector, organizations active within accessible tourism, and other interested parties made up the public. After the presentation of the project and its results in the recently concluded piloting by the coordinator and project manager of the project, Alberto Biondo and Vidjaya Thelen, the event took the form of a panel discussion on the topic of accessible tourism at Palermo, focussing on the importance of training and the territorial needs.<\/p>\n

The audience could see and hear about the different good practices and the hard work of people in Palermo for a more accessible city. Interventions were done by<\/p>\n