Accessible Tourism – Tourism for All.

The holiday is the moment of recreation and relaxation par excellence, but for those who experience a situation of disability or temporary discomfort that limits it in mobility may face more than one obstacle that makes the “Inaccessible Tourism“.

 

“I dream of seeing people with disabilities travel and move freely around the world, find every tourist destination accessible […] enter a travel agency, ask for a holiday to any destination and receive as an answer: sorry, but all accessible rooms are already booked for the coming months! Maybe I can’t go on vacation but I would be happy because we will finally have a Tourism For All”.

Roberto Romeo – President ANGLAT (Associazione Nazionale Guida Legislazione Andicappati Trasporti)

 

Accessible Tourism can be defined as the set of products and services of the entire tourist service chain that are designed for everyone and without barriers, allowing customers with special access requests, including mobility, sight, hearing and cognitive dimension, to enjoy the holiday and free time without difficulties or obstacles independently and with equity and dignity through the availability of products, services and tourist environments universally studied.

 

Also known as Tourism for All, Inclusive Tourism and Tourism without barriers is enterprise and not social assistance, because the person with disabilities is a tourist, a customer and a guest just like others.

In the World more than 1 billion people live with a disability.

The United Nations estimates that the figure is 2 billion, including family members and assistants.

To meet the demands of tourists with special needs, in addition to eliminating architectural barriers in individual structures, it is necessary to design a hospitable system that allows you to live a complete holiday experience.

What does a service or facility need to be accessible?

  • When the relevant information is accessible, it is therefore easily available, understandable and effective.
  • When they are easily accessible and fully usable once reached.
  • When the staff working there is prepared to respond to various types of needs.
  • When they are inserted in an accessible “net” (hotels, means of transport, restaurants, places of interest in the surroundings).

The goal of Tourism for All is to allow all people to live a travel experience as independently as possible and with the opportunity to know new realities.

It aims to remove any cultural, architectural and communication barriers and to offer superior experiences for the entire society.

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The evolution of the tourist destinations of the future.

Let’s forget about places of departure, arrival or passage.

In the future we expect airports as tourist and entertainment destinations.

This evolution is carried out by three architects ( Terence Young, Andy Bell and Pat Askew) currently engaged in the conversion and transformation of some of the main airports in the USA.

According to them, in the next 20 years airports will become a place where people will want to stay rather than a place to travel.

The key is to recreate places of aggregation similar to historic centers.

Singapore Airport recently inaugurated a Zen area decorated with a recurring motif of an orchid representing the national symbol flower.

In Abu Dhabi, in addition to the roof that recalls the desert dunes, you will find an art gallery surrounded by luxury boutiques.

The Economist has defined all international airports and their population as the “Sixth Continent” as multi-ethnic, diverse, cosmopolitan and hyperconnected.

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Travel & Sports

 

In 2023 we would have several sporting events not to be missed.

  1. The Champions League Final in Istanbul: It will take place at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium on 10 June 2023 at 21. Located in the district of Basaksehir, west of the Bosphorus, it can accommodate over 75,000 spectators. This is an excellent opportunity to visit the fantastic Istanbul and among the places not to be missed are the majestic Hagia Sophia, the Topkapi Palace, the Grand Bazaar, which some consider the oldest and most impressive shopping center in the world, the Suleymaniye Mosque, the Blue Mosque and its wonderful mosaics, the Basilica Cisterna, an architectural marvel and one of the most mysterious and fascinating Byzantine monuments of the city.                                                                                                                                                      
  2. Real Madrid theme park in Dubai: Sponsored by Dubai Parks and Resorts, it will most likely be called Hala Madrid! and will feature a museum, roller coaster and football skill games. The new park, complete with its own entrance gate, will be located between Motiongate Dubai and the Bollywood theme parks and is expected to open on undeveloped land in the fourth quarter of 2023. The park entrance gate overlooks the Riverland Dubai’s restaurant and shopping district in Dubai’s parks and resorts. Visitors will enjoy the audiovisual experience, interactive in the spirit of Real Madrid.                                                                                                                       
  3. The Rugby World Cup in France: The tenth Rugby World Cup will take place from 8 September to 28 October 2023, 200 years after the birth of the sport. The event involves the whole of France, starting from the 10 cities that will host the matches: Lille, Saint-Etienne, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Paris, Saint-Denis. Other cities will have the opportunity to host qualifying teams for the finals, such as Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Versailles, Libourne, La Baule-Escoublac, Avignon and Montpellier. With 48 matches organized in 10 host cities, the organisers promise 45 days of celebration animated by a spirit of openness and welcome that goes beyond the sport.                                                                                                                                                                    
  4. The World Cycling Championships in Glasgow :  Scheduled from 3 to 13 August, in addition to the city that gives its name to the event, the protagonists will also be Edinburgh, where will kick off the elite men’s test, and Loch Lomond, from where will launch elite women and men under23. There is also room for Stirling, where all the chronometers of the various categories are scheduled. However, a 14.4-kilometre street circuit in Glasgow will be at the heart of all the on-line tests, ending at George Square.
  5. RYDER CUP: The countdown has started, the 44th edition of the Ryder Cup, the third most important sporting event in the world after the Olympics and World Cup, will be staged at the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club of Guidonia Montecelio (Rome) from 29 September to 1 October 2023, preceded by three days of approaching matches (Tuesday, September 26, Wednesday, September 27 and Thursday, September 28). It will be the first edition in Italy after those in England, Scotland, Spain, Ireland, Wales and France.
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5 places not to be missed in Rome

  • PALAZZO ZUCCARI
    Also known as the House of Monsters because of the door that opens into a gigantic open mouth with a keystone nose, it is one of the most unusual structures of the capital. Federico Zuccari made it inspired by the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo, from which he had been particularly fascinated. This work is located in Via Gregoriana 30.

 

                                                                     

 

  • THE MOSE OF MICHELANGELO

    It is one of the most famous sculptures by Michelangelo and is part of the tomb located in San Pietro in Vincoli, built in 1505 on commission of Pope Julius II. Legend has it that Michelangelo contemplating the sculpture at the end of the finishing, was himself amazed by the realism of the forms and that he exclaimed “Why don’t you speak?” hitting his knee with the hammer he was holding. He is in Via delle Sette Sale 14.

                                                                   

 

 

  • THE GARDEN OF PIAZZA VENEZIA
    Also known as Giardino Ritrovato, this Renaissance courtyard has been redeveloped and is open to everyone free of charge. At the center of the courtyard is the travertine fountain that is the fulcrum of the garden both visually and auditory. The statues confirm the link of the Palace with the Republic of Venice, in fact there is the statue of a woman with the Doge’s hat in the act of throwing a ring in the water that recalls the Venetian Sensa Festival, a ceremony of union between the city and the sea. It is located in Piazza Venezia.

                                                               

 

  • THE SQUARE COLOSSEUM
    In fact, we talk about the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana or the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro. This famous monument has the shape of a large parallelepiped with four equal façades, each marked by fifty-four arcatelle that make it resemble the Colosseum, but with a streamlined shape. Its height rises by sixty meters and the base is fifty-three meters wide: the structure is in reinforced concrete and the cover in travertine. On the ground floor, there are statues of the square Colosseum: they are twenty-eight sculptures depicting the allegory of the virtues of the Italian people. Inside, it takes up the external lines: there are large cubic metres covered with emphatically vertical marble coverings. The floors are distinguished by antique red marble, while the splendor is underlined by the large crystal and brass chandeliers, restored according to their original image. It is located in Via Quadrato della Concordia 5.

                                                             

 

  • THE JAPANESE GARDEN
    Designed by the architect Ken Nakajima, the same who created the Japanese area at the Botanical Garden of Rome. You are immersed in Japanese culture, a walk among cherries, irises and wisteria, the pond, the waterfall, the rocks, the bridge and the stone lamp, tôrô. All the essential and traditional elements of the garden of sen’en style (garden with pond) appear, which has reached its current splendor perfecting itself through the Heian, Muromachi (XIV-XVI centuries) and Momoyama periods (late XVI centuries). The veranda, tsuridono, which extends over the pond is one of the best points to enjoy the view of the garden. It is located in Via Antonio Gramsci 74, at the Japanese Institute of Culture in Rome.

 

                                                                             

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