Accessible Portugal, with the support of the Vodafone Portugal Foundation and Turismo de Portugal, launches the first TUR4all Portugal online platform exclusively dedicated to accessible tourism.
It is a platform that provides information on accessibility conditions in various tourist resources such as hotels, monuments and museums, in transportation (adapted), restaurants with adapted bathrooms or menus in Braille, among other situations. The platform aggregates a reliable set of
validated by technical specialists, based on a methodology for assessing the accessibility of tourism resources, consisting of a set of questionnaires to verify accessibility criteria, validated with public and private organizations in support of persons with disabilities and representatives of the tourism sector.
In Portugal, there are about 1 million people with specific needs, 2.5 million seniors, 550 thousand children under 5 years of age and thousands of people with temporary or permanent limitations. In the European Union it is estimated that at least 80 million people have some kind of disability, and this figure is expected to rise to 120 million by 2020.
The TUR4all platform was developed to think of these people. It can be accessed via website or mobile application and provides objective and updated information on the real accessibility conditions of the tourist offer.
For a given tourist resource, the platform allows you to consult all relevant information about accessibility, namely:
• Entrance: reserved parking, access ramps, safety handrails and door width;
• Interior circulation: circulation in wheelchairs, lighting, signage, characteristics of elevators, number of steps and height, safety handrails;
• Adapted rooms: for motor limitations, accessibility to the room, width and width of the door, lateral width of access to the bed, height of the bed, photographs and detailed information of the sanitary facilities;
• Restoration area: height of the service desk, information on menu accessibility, table service;
• Exterior area: information on the type of pavement and regularity of the same
• Services and equipment: visits and activities for people with special needs, specific equipment for hearing and visual impairments, information in simplified writing / LGP / Braille, as well as the level of training of the staff to deal with specific needs.
TUR4all Portugal will provide tourists with the possibility to program their experiences in advance based on reliable information, and thus to choose the places that they consider more accessible in view of the special needs they face at a given time. In addition to the information validated by experts
specialists, also the users of the various tourist resources available can evaluate and share their opinion and experience.
TUR4all Portugal promotes and enhances the supply and demand of accessible tourism, as well as contributing to the improvement of the conditions and benefits of all. The platform is available through a website as well as a free mobile application at this stage in android and a second phase for iOS.
It is now possible to access TUR4all in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Briefly, the content will also be available in German, French, Italian and Mandarin.