We invite you to a three-day, free training on the accessibility of tourist offers for people with disabilities, which will take place from 23/10/2023 to 25/10/2023 at the Lower Silesian Film Centre in Wrocław, at 64a Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego Street.
photo: Marta Sobala
Accessible tourism is not just about infrastructure, but above all, the availability of services. People with various disabilities are increasingly choosing mountain tourism as a form of leisure activity. Participants will gain knowledge on how to design tourism experiences and provide services to people with visual, hearing, mobility, and intellectual disabilities, as well as caregivers with children, obese individuals, people of short stature, and those with sensory and motor impairments.
The training will be conducted by trainers from Imago Foundation, Katarynka Foundation and Ładne Historie Foundation, including people with disabilities. The training is primarily practical, but also includes essential legal aspects. A detailed program can be found below.
Registration
Registration closed. No places available.
Training program
- day 1, 23/10
- 10:00-12:00 Imago Foundation
1. The legal and substantive scope regulating accessibility issues – obligatory and optional activities, definition of accessibility, who is a person with special needs and who is a person with a disability);
2. Accessible tourism – definition, current solutions and good practices - 12:00 – 13:00 Imago Foundation
Workshops (with the participation of experts through experience):- A person with special needs in the mountains. Perspective – opportunities, expectations, barriers, and support:
a) The perspective of people with intellectual disabilities;
b) The perspective of people with mobility disabilities;
c) The perspective of people with hearing disabilities;
- A person with special needs in the mountains. Perspective – opportunities, expectations, barriers, and support:
- 13:00 – 14:00
lunch break - 14:00 – 17:00 Imago Foundation
d) The perspective of people with visual disabilities;
e) Other needs of people with special needs: e.g. caregivers with children, obese people, people of short stature, people with sensory-motor disorders.
- 10:00-12:00 Imago Foundation
- day 2, 22/10
- 9:00 – 13:00 Katarynka Foundation
Information development and practical workshop on guiding people with hearing and visual impairments - 13:00 – 14:00
lunch break - 14:00 – 17:00 Fundacja Ładne Historie
Practical workshops – creating a tourist offer for people with disabilities, selecting and planning a forest/mountain hiking route taking into account various disabilities1
- 9:00 – 13:00 Katarynka Foundation
- day 3, 23/10
- 9:00 – 11:00 Fundacja Ładne Historie
Practical workshops – camping, equipment for mountain expeditions - 11:00 – 13:00 Imago Foundation
Organization of own work – groups with special needs
a) Discussion of good practices and solutions used in tourism in relation to people with special needs;
b) Trip planning – universal planning in the mountains;
- 13:00 – 14:00
lunch break - 14:00 – 17:00 Imago Foundation
c) Testing the planned solution – activities with a group of people with special needs.
- 9:00 – 11:00 Fundacja Ładne Historie
More information
Please contact us by phone: +48 792-651-423
This training is dedicated to Sudeten Guides and is part of the Sudeten Guides Year celebrations. It is organized by the Lower Silesian Tourist Organization and the Marshal's Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
