{"id":9113,"date":"2016-03-03T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2016-03-03T16:43:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:43:40","slug":"three-accessible-tourism-projects-make-design-for-all-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/03\/three-accessible-tourism-projects-make-design-for-all-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Three accessible tourism projects make Design for All finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/rixresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Logo-GoodPractice-Winner-2015-900x300.jpg\" alt=\"International Design for All Awards\" width=\"900\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 7th edition of the International Design for All Foundation Good Practices Awards recognise achievements in the field of design for all, great and small, by governments, businesses, not-for-profit organisations and professionals from all over the world. In so doing, they aim to demonstrate that the implementation of design for all\/universal design in any form contributes towards improving quality of life for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Each year an international jury will select the 5 &#8220;Best Practices&#8221; out of all the Good Practices submitted to be presented with the International Design for All Foundation Award. Among the\u00a036 projects, products and services\u00a0recognised as\u00a0candidates\u00a0for the awards three are focussed on improving tourism for all.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Web site handiBooking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.handibooking.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">handiBooking<\/a> is a platform specializing in booking accommodation suitable for people with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parquesdesintra.pt\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parks of Sintra<\/a> Welcome Better\u00a0project aims to improve access to the parks and palaces under the company\u2019s management and serve as a good example of accessible tourism and equal access to natural and built heritage by providing access to a greater diversity of visitor.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Web site Seable\" href=\"http:\/\/seable.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seable<\/a> specialized in accessible tailor made active holidays for people with limited mobility and\/or sensory impairment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/designforall.org\/awards.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">International Design for All Awards and the other finalists<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards aim to demonstrate that the implementation of design for all\/universal design in any form contributes towards improving quality of life for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,675,17,287,534,676],"tags":[83],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Three accessible tourism projects make Design for All finals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Awards aim to demonstrate that the implementation of design for all\/universal design in any form contributes towards improving quality of 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