ITB Berlin Accessible Tourism Market Potential and Best Practices
( Last Updated: 16-03-2010 )
On Friday the 12th March, Tourism for All UK participated in a two hour workshop at the largest tourism trade exhibition of its kind - ITB Berlin.
In front of an audience of visitors to the trade show, the session investigated the experience of the panellists as to how Europe was meeting the needs of disabled visitors, which was followed by an in-depth Q&A session hosted by SAT 1 TV presenter Bettina Cramer.
Principally this session was about good practice and how the requirements of disabled people are being met in Europe, the barriers to tourism for disabled people and how these might be overcome.
Participants included:
Dirk Janczewski, Founder of Barrier-Free-Tourism.eu (www.barrierfree-tourism.com/);
Lillian Muller, President of ENAT - the European Network for Accessible Tourism (www.accessibletourism.org/);
Mohammed Al-Tarawneh Vice-Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (www.ohchr.org/);
Dr Rudiger Leidner - President of the Coordination Board on Tourism of the German Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (http://natko.de/);
Angel David Herrera González - Counsellor of Tourism for Arona in Tenerife (www.arona.org/)
Brian Seaman of TFA.