Accessible Portugal
Since 2006, the brand, ACCESSIBLE PORTUGAL, has grown to become the institution for the promotion of Accessible Tourism for All in Portugal.
It its current legal format, considered to be the most appropriate for its aims, this private, non-profit Association is an entity that qualifies tourism supply and demand for all segments of the market according to their distinctive characteristics. Accessible Portugal promotes the development of areas that are gearing up to welcome a diversity of clients / tourists from a growing market, improving the quality of the lives of residents who also have a diversity of needs that must be satisfied.
The promotion of Accessible Tourism from this perspective has been major success. The aging world population, particularly that of major tourist source markets, together with their growing and consolidated desire to travel, naturally require tourist destinations to gear themselves up in an endeavour to respond to the respective challenges.
These challenges refer to the quality and safety that clients, increasingly more demanding and more aware of their rights, attach great importance to.
Partners
Turismo de Portugal
TURISMO DE PORTUGAL, the Portuguese Tourist Board, is a Public Institution, which, within the scope of its attributed functions and powers, is responsible for coordinating the promotion of the country as a tourist destination, and in this regard, is also responsible for guaranteeing the structuring and monitoring of initiatives and projects that develop national tourism and allow it to grow.
In recent years, TURISMO DE PORTUGAL has been developing a series of initiatives to promote accessible tourism in Portugal and in September 2016, launched the "ALL FOR ALL – Portuguese Tourism" Programme, aimed at all business owners in the sector, to foster mobilisation and coordinated actions to make national tourism resources accessible.
The "Development of the TUR4all Portugal Web Platform for the information and dissemination of accessible tourism resources", presented by ACCESSIBLE PORTUGAL, falls within the framework of the goals of TURISMO DE PORTUGAL, namely to help to promote accessible tourism in Portugal and to improve national tourism resources to be able to cater to the specific needs of this segment, in addition to fulfilling its desire to make Portugal a destination that is accessible for all.
European Network for Accessible Tourism
ENAT is a non-profit association whose members are pioneering entities in the study, promotion and practice of accessible tourism. By leveraging the knowledge and experience of the network, our members improve accessibility to tourist information, transport, infrastructures and the design of services for tourists with all kinds of needs, generating best practices and models of excellence for the whole of the tourism industry.
Fundação Vodafone Portugal
Fundação Vodafone Portugal is a self-funded, non-profit entity whose aim is to contribute to the development of the Information Society, fight the digital divide and disseminate mobile communication technologies. All projects are important because they provide technical innovation for the development of Society, but some stand out for their scope and significance and for the way in which they help to build a more sustainable and fair future.
Fundação Vodafone Portugal signed a Protocol agreement with Accessible Portugal to finance the customisation of the TUR4all project in Portugal, through which a Web Platform was developed to provide information about accessible tourism resources in Portugal.