Alpine Access Fostering Transnational Governance for Accessible All-Season Alpine Tourism
Description of the problem
– Inaccessible Alpine SKI resorts all-year-round tourism offers: an expressive need to connecting digital and physical accessibility of their offers for all-year-round activities: mountaineering, ski-sports, wellness, culture and entertainment etc with a focus on elderly visitors as well as on visitors with different disabilities, since they represent a strong, faithful and untapped economic potential.
– Lack of Common Strategies for development of accessible all-year-round Alpine SKI resorts tourism, based on best practices from EU and USA (ADA- Americans with Disabilities Act); even though there are a few accessible resorts in the EU, they are all expensive and cater firstly to the social elites;
– Lack of accessibility knowledge, experience, open dialogue and support to staff and managers of the Resorts, to implement digitally and physically accessible products, services and communication;
– Lack of accessible touristic digital services (various selection options for accommodations, tickets, events participation reservation and communications services) for planning a vacation, which are crucial for persons with different disabilities. They must be very sure, that the place they are visiting will be accessible to them, so they spend about three times more researching and confirming accessibility features in order to be fully included and able to participate, then the average tourist;
– Lack of a unified Alpine SKI Resorts Counselling and Leadership at implementing strategic accessibility measures and features, exchanging experiences, finding solutions to common or specific issues with setting up accessible seasonal touristic products and services;
– Lack of Persons with disabilities Organization’s (PwDOs) influence to change and raise the need for equal social inclusion awareness in order to develop physically and digitally accessible Alpine SKI resorts all-year-round tourism offers.
Project objectives
To establish a common transnational governance framework and strategy for improving the digital and physical accessibility of Alpine all-year-round tourism resorts, fostering multi-level and cross-sectoral cooperation, and empowering local communities.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES:
• To improve coordination and cooperation between organizations at different governance levels (local, regional, national) and across sectors (tourism, accessibility, disability rights) for development of accessible all-year-round Trans-Alpine tourism;
• To develop and implement a shared Trans-Alpine Accessible Tourism Strategy and methodologies tailored to the specific needs of Alpine territories.
• To strengthen the capacities of all-year-round Alpine tourism stakeholders (resort operators, authorities, civil society) in accessibility planning, implementation, and monitoring through training and knowledge exchange;
• To engage local communities, Persons with disabilities organizations (PwDOs), and civil society in the co-creation and participatory governance of accessible Trans-Alpine all-year-round tourism offers.
The activities concerns the Trans-Alpine Accessible Tourism Governance Framework with the Development of Trans-Alpine Accessible all-year round Resorts Tourism Strategy and Capacity building and PILOT implementations.
Project Idea Type: Governance (Priority 4)
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