Girona’s tourism industry trains in inclusive tourism
Everyone has the right to enjoy leisure and free time on an equal footing. For this reason, tourism is moving inexorably towards a more inclusive tourism that takes everyone into account.
Category: Accessible
Experience twice as much
Are you a beach or mountain person? Urban or country lover? Are you more into the seaside or the snow? Would you rather learn or have fun? Be active or chill-out? Would you rather be in couple or with friends? You’re lucky, you needn’t sacrifice any of these things. You can have it all at Costa Brava and the Girona Pyrenee.
The inclusive Vívid
The 8th edition of Vívid, the Empordà wine tourism festival, returns this April with seventy wine tourism activities, fifteen of which are accessible.
Accessible nature
Contact with nature has numerous benefits for physical and mental health. Improving mood, boosting self-esteem and ageing more healthily are just some of them. On the Costa Brava and in the Girona Pyrenees we have landscapes to suit all tastes, green and blue landscapes.
Everyone can fly in Empuriabrava
The Empuriabrava Wind Tunnel has organised an adapted flight practice session for flyers with reduced mobility. The initiative is part of the European project #WindTunnelHandifly2021, which promotes adapted indoor flights among people with disabilities.
Designing sightseeing tours for all
Everyone wants to have first-hand experiences and a friendly environment is necessary to make this possible. Knowing the profile of the audience will help us to plan the experience correctly and to take into account the needs of the visitor.
“Els sentits de la descoberta” (The senses of discovery), the new digital book on inclusive tourism
Els sentits de la descoberta. La Costa Brava i el Pirineu de Girona per a tothom (The senses of discovery. The Costa Brava and the Girona Pyrenees for all) was created with the aim of informing about the inclusive offer of our territory, motivating the public to visit us and raising awareness in the sector, so that the offer increases and becomes more and more inclusive.
Manu Heras: “Tourism is an opportunity for many people”
The wheelchair hasn’t stopped him, because, he says: “Over the years I found the strength and resilience..
PREDIF highlights the range of accessible active tourism on offer in the counties of Girona
Francisco Sardón, with his back to the camera, moves forward in a wheelchair through the mediaeval town of Pals. It …
Universal design tourism in La Garrotxa
Six people with disabilities: a blind man, a deaf woman, a young man with Down’s syndrome and three wheelchair users. All of them are members of the Multicapacitats association, in Girona. They are accompanied by four tour guides representing Trescàlia.