Project overview
Accessible Spaces for All – Improving Accessibility of Tourism for Persons with Disabilities in Central Europe
Accessible tourism allows people with disabilities to travel independently. But there is still often a lack of awareness for their needs. The CE-Spaces4All project connected public authorities, the tourism sector and people with disabilities to improve governance for a more accessible tourism. The partners developed a digital tool for mapping barriers in rural regions and provided these with a joint strategy and local action plans to better integrate accessibility considerations in territorial planning.
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2,65m €
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Project Budget
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80%
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of the Budget is funded by ERDF
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7
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Countries
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9
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Regions
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12
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Partners
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4
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Pilots
Duration
Start date
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Project progress
Project partnership
Project partners
Lead partner
Geodetic Institute of Slovenia
Project partner
Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences, Institute of Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning and Land Rearrangement
Department for social activity projects
Unit of geoinformatics
Unit of disabled people
National and International Programmes and Projects Department
Roadmap
Our vision
Our vision was travelling for everyone without distinction.
Specific problem
Min 20 % of people in the EU live with a limit that creates a travel restrictive conditions. These people would like to travel by themselves without dependency on specialized agencies. We are talking about people on wheelchairs, seniors, parents with babies in stroller, persons with vision or hearing impairment or low vision or hard hearing.
Idea
CE-Spaces4All addressed key barriers of accessible tourism for everyone that were necessary to remove: lack of awareness, capacities and cooperation of multi-level cross-sectoral stakeholders for territorial planning for accessible tourism and lack of involvement of people with disabilities, lack of standardised data for evidence-based accessibility planning, and lack of proper services for PWD for independent tourism travel.
Step by step
We developed joint tool for informed territorial planning of accessible tourism. We developed tools and services for persons with disabilities for independent tourism travel. We focused on mainstreaming and policy uptake.
Solution
The project created Web Accessibility Viewer tool for policy planners for mapping and visualising barriers to accessibility; its application in pilot regions results in a catalogue of barriers. As a result, raised capacities and improved cooperation of stakeholders lead to better governance for policy and territorial planning of accessible tourism, as well as to improved public services for persons with disabilities. This helped to remove accessible tourism development barriers in the regions, and improved their territorial and social cohesion.
News
Events
Pilot actions
Outputs
Posters about our work
Web Accessibility Viewer
Model for improving mobility of PWD for independent tourism travel in the transborder tourism area
A Joint Strategy - Territorial Planning for Accessible Tourism in Rural Regions of Central Europe
Action Plans for Improving Accessibility of Tourism in the Transborder Tourism Region
Organisations cooperating across borders - European Disability Forum Trainings
- Training 1. Accessibility
- Training 2. ABC Of Disability And Accessibility
- Training 3. Accessible Events And Communication
- Training 4. Accessible Tourism The EU Perspective
- Low Training 5. Good Practices In Accessible Tourism
- Low Training 6. Good Practices In Accessible Tourism Part 1
- Training 6. Good Practices In Accessible Tourism Part 2
- Training 7. European Accessibility Act And Accessible Tourism
Project documents
Training about Accessibility from European Disability Forum
Posters about our work
Accessibility Guides EN, CZ, AT
CE-Spaces4All
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