Small investments in accessibility and innovation can ship be a game-changer for tourism locations all over the place. However, regardless of 1.3 billion worldwide individuals already experiencing important incapacity, many locations and tourism companies are nonetheless failing to embrace the numerous advantages of welcoming these travellers.
To mark Worldwide Day of Individuals with Disabilities, UN Tourism has joined with its companions ONCE Basis and the Spanish Affiliation for Standardization to spotlight the immense financial and social advantages of accelerating the accessibility of tourism for individuals with disabilities and particular necessities and for seniors, towards the ISO 21902:2021 Requirements on Accessible Tourism.
The newest analysis makes clear the rising demand for accessible journey:
- Globally, 1.3 billion individuals already experiencing important incapacity
- 1 in 6 of the inhabitants set to be aged 60 and over in 5 years’ time
- Travellers with disabilities being accompanied by 2 to three further purchasers
The brand new tips on accessible tourism, produced by UN Tourism and our companions, set out how each locations and companies can harness the facility of innovation and funding to spice up accessibility in each method
Throughout the European Union, extra that 70% of the 80 million individuals with disabilities can afford to journey and revel in tourism. In Asia and the Pacific, the potential market dimension is of 690 million individuals and in Latin America and Caribbean this determine reaches 85 million individuals.
UN Tourism Secretary-Common Zurab Pololikashvili says: “All people ought to be capable to get pleasure from tourism. At UN Tourism we’ve got been advocating for accessibility for a few years, and the advantages have by no means been clearer. The brand new tips on accessible tourism, produced by UN Tourism and our companions, set out how each locations and companies can harness the facility of innovation and funding to spice up accessibility in each method.”
UN Tourism tips for accessible journey
Accessible tourism is game-changer for bettering mid- and low-season efficiency; its prospects are extraordinarily diversified and dependable; it creates jobs and considerably improves popularity of locations and companies welcoming all vistors, with or with out disabilities.
To assist locations and companies faucet into this potential, UN Tourism and its companions have launched six units of tips Produced by UN Tourism, ONCE Basis and Spanish Affiliation for Standardization (UNE), in collaboration with the European Community for Accessible Tourism and plenty of different companions.
The rules put the Worldwide ISO 21902:2021 Commonplace on Accessible Tourism within the highlight and goal:
- Nationwide tourism administrations and vacation spot administration organizations
- Lodging, meals & beverage and MICE firms
- Journey companies and tour operators
- Transport sector
- Heritage websites and cultural establishments
- Organizations and corporations working in protected nature areas
All these tips supply strategic and actionable suggestions to supply accessible tourism experiences, so each individual can get pleasure from journey and tourism on equal phrases. Accessibility put in place, brings enhancements in consolation, service and the standard of life of holiday makers and host communities alike. The forthcoming Madrid Worldwide Tourism Truthful FITUR 2025 will function a gathering level to debate alternative ways of placing these suggestions in place.
A collaborative effort
UN Tourism thanks its 15 companions, particularly: the European Accessibility Centre-AccessibleEU, European Community for Accessible Tourism (ENAT), Turismo de Portugal, Ministerio de Turismo y Deportes de Argentina, World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (WSHA), Worldwide Affiliation of Executives & Resort Managers (CIDH), ICOMOS-Worldwide Cultural Tourism Committee, IUCN-Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group, Nationwide Forest Company of Chile, Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA), Worldwide Union of Railways (IUC), Fédération Internationale de l’Car (IUC), Cruise Strains Worldwide Affiliation (CLIA), Sage Accessible Journey Options and Impulsa Igualdad-Tur4All.
