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239 - Travel & Tourism Information for All, Germany

ONTACT

Tourism for All

Ms. Elske de Vries

Germany

+31 6 1833 1803

VERALL GOAL

MISSION

The mission of this Project ‘Travel & Tourism Information for All’ is to create a digital system with global information on

accessible travel & tourism - specific information for travelers with disabilities and senior citizens on accommodation,

recreation and transport worldwide. This system will be presented as a digital platform for both the tourist industry and

the consumers (end-users) and will be following the characteristics of platform thinking: Allowing external parties to

create and consume value, to share value - Tourism for All will provide the infrastructure and will manage the

interactions (partial like the system of Facebook); Designing how the interaction between tourist industry and travelers

with disabilities will happen - ensuring to have the right set of rules to govern these interactions (like TripAdvisor does);

Being able to collect data, which could not be collected in the past without the internet - these data allowing Tourism

for All to match producers and consumers and match consumers and value on a consistent level.

HE SOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED

This digital system will be the solution because:

It will solve the lack of information, making use of an enormous amount of data (some already available - others still to

be found) - in the end covering tourist areas worldwide;

The unknown data which are not available yet will be obtained by this digital platform where as well the tourist industry

as people with disabilities can input their data - all this structured and managed by Tourism for All (e.g. Facebook or

TripAdvisor);

The platform will provide the opportunity for sharing travel experiences and for communication between tourist

industry and disabled guests;

The access information will be standardized, so it can easily be read and compared;

The collected information is completely available for the tourist industry so they can also use it in their own way to

approach disabled guests.

OUNTRY IN WHICH IT WAS DEVELOPED

Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany