{"id":2652,"date":"2015-07-15T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2015-11-19T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T11:21:28","slug":"europe-has-long-way-to-go-on-accessible-tourism-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/07\/europe-has-long-way-to-go-on-accessible-tourism-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe has &#8220;long way to go&#8221; on accessible tourism supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2653\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ENAT_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"ENAT_Logo\" width=\"640\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ENAT_Logo.jpg 640w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ENAT_Logo-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>&#8220;There is still a long way to go before our tourism market can be considered as fully user friendly towards any tourists, says Annagrazia Laura, President of the European network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT), &#8220;and before citizens with specific access needs may go on holidays throughout Europe, free from access problems, risks and challenges.&#8221; In her\u00a0article, published on ENAT&#8217;s website, she says that one of major challenges is to establish a long-term funding strategy at EU level that can drive\u00a0innovation in tourism accessibility. \u00a0&#8220;The sooner we all solve this major problem,&#8221; she adds, &#8220;the sooner the Tourism for All market could develop positively\u00a0for the benefit of the tourism industry, the destinations and the employment opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h6>In Brief<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>According to ENAT, the most frequent barriers encountered by tourists concern\u00a0to availability of information on accessible services (66%) and lack of available services (50%).<\/li>\n<li>The <a class=\"external\" title=\"link opens in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/pantou.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pantou Directory<\/a>\u00a0is being developed by ENAT and partners to provide a coherent and consistent method of gathering data on accessible suppliers and their respective services across Europe.<\/li>\n<li>ENAT will present proposals\u00a0for a World Network on Accessible Tourism will in September at the <a class=\"external\" title=\"link opens in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessibletourism.org\/?i=enat.en.events.1706\" target=\"_blank\">Fifth International Congress on Tourism for All, in Madrid.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In Depth<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the original article, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessibletourism.org\/?i=enat.en.presidents_message\" target=\"_blank\">New Perspectives and Strategies towards Europe 2020<\/a>&#8216;.<\/li>\n<li>Follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/euaccesstourism\" target=\"_blank\">European Network for Accessible Tourism on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jmcsmith.co.uk\/2013\/09\/17\/accessible-tourism-largest-travel-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">why accessible tourism may soon be the largest travel market<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In the Future<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there has been considerable progress, Europe still has much work to do on accessible tourism, says president of European Network on Accessible Tourism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[53],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Europe has &quot;long way to go&quot; 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