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Interactive map for green tourism for people with disabilities

2021-1-RO01-KA220-ADU-0000282592021Cooperation partnerships in adult educationongoing
Countries: RO|CY|ES|IT|BG · Grant: €198,787
Inclusion, promoting equality and non-discriminationDisabilitiesEnvironment and climate change

Objectives

The main goal was to promote sustainability in the tourism sector by facilitating access to natural and cultural resources for people with disabilities. The aim was to motivate people with disabilities to lead active lives by engaging in green tourism, while also encouraging tourism service providers to create inclusive tourism offerings, thereby increasing their range of services. Furthermore, our objectives were: to promote social inclusion, to enable people with disabilities to plan and enjoy green touristic travels within a sustainable and environmentally friendly context, to encourage active participation related with a more active engagement within the green tourism context, to raise environmental awareness among tourists, to support and encourage tourism providers in terms of providing more green and accessible options while helping them to understand the importance and their benefit of doing that, to provide Educational Resources that can support stakeholders and VET providers.

Background

GreenTour project was motivated by the need to promote the social inclusion and better access of the people with disabilities to existing green tourism possibilities and foster environmental sustainability in tourism industry. The project, thanks to its activities and results achieved, gave us the opportunity to satisfy the initial needs of our organization as it has: - increased opportunities for sociality and inclusion for people with disabilities who frequent our organization - supported local organizations working in the tourism sector by obtaining digital solutions useful for creating an accessible tourist activity; - provided better access to green tourism in the tourism industry of our social fabric; - improved the training offer of our organization and the level of knowledge of our members; - increased our local network in an inclusive manner.

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