Over the counter free consultancy, run by the CPD with a staff of qualified technicians, which works to assist hoteliers in their difficulties related to the question of acceptance and accessibility, trying to support the principle that "access is convenient” Turismabile and CPD pursue, through the efforts and cooperation with qualified professionals, "transparent" accessibility.
This is a series of technical measures that make the structures accessible in pleasant and non-invasive, building environments suitable for everyone, but no less valuable from an architectural point of view.
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Tourism for all: congress report.
It took place on 11th 12th June in Alba at the Fondazione Ferrero.
Friday 11th and Saturday 12th June took place, at the Fondazione Ferrero of Alba (CN) the congress “Development of tourism for all – Promotion strategies and good practices in the offer”, organized by the CPD (Council for People with Difficulties) inside the project Turismabile, by the Association Sportabili of Alba, by ISiTT (Italian Institute for Tourism for All) with the contribution of Regione Piemonte, of the ATL Langhe e Roero, of the City of Alba and the sponsor of the Minister of Tourism. The 50 speakers present have discussed, in front o fan audience of 200 participants, about the potential of a field, the one of tourism for people with special needs – i.e. tourists with disability, elderly, people with allergies and food intolerances, with babies and so on – which is still not very known and as a consequence it’s often underestimated by operators. During the two days, through the presentation of good practices for Italy and abroad, it has been spoken about how let meet a constantly growing demand with an offer where the quality of welcome is the key factor. The congress was divided into two different parts: a plenary session and three round tables. Since the important occasion it has been held, exceptionally in Alba instead of Rome, the monthly session of the Minister Commission for development and Promotion of Accessible Tourism. Among the many speakers, Mohammad Al-Tarawneh, vice-president of the Committee for the Rights of People with Disability of the UN, remembered how the right to travel is also sealed also by the Convention of the UN about rights on people with disability, approved in 2006 in New York and ratified in 2009. Also Giampiero Griffo, of the European Disability Forum, spoke about the convention, by defining it a chart which is changing the life of 650 millions of people in the world and where “accessibility” is a word that appears in a lot of articles. Pietro Barbieri, president of FISH (Italian Federation for over going Handicap), put the accent on the equity of treatment, i.e. on the fact that people with disability wish to be treated like any other, without discrimination, which means, in the tourism field, to be considered normal customers, like any other. Giovanni Cocco, general director of ISNART (National Institute for Tourism research), confirmed that accessible tourism is growing for at least three reasons: liberalization of tourism market (more competitiveness and therefore more easy prices like low cost), the new technologies helping those with disability and the progressive increase of people with particular needs (above all because of the ageing of the population and the elevation of life expectation). Exactly for this reason, concluded Paolo Osiride Ferrero, president of the CPD, you cannot “draft”, but you need more and more professionalism in the field of tourism for all.