Guntram Geser, Salzburg Research This article summarises important lessons learned by the GATE pilot sites in the realisation of their new IT applications. The pilot sites developed applications of information technologies for different kinds of tourism offers, including the Bletterbach area and gorge (part of the World Heritage Dolomites), the nature park Parco Rossi, the […]
A mountain excursion, a stroll through a romantic park, the descent of a gorge excavated by a stream through the course of millennia … a type of tourism from which many people feel excluded, perhaps. Not just the disabled: we’re talking about the elderly, too, or families with small children. This is the motivation behind […]
Three years of research and work have resulted in the final conference of the GATE project. The difficult period we are experiencing now due to the Coronavirus-19 pandemic has not affected the end of the works and, prior to the official termination of the Project, set for 31 December 2020, the final conference will be […]
Interested in inclusive tourism? This fall 2020, starting from November 4th, a series of five workshops will take place within the context of the GATE project – Granting Accessible Tourism for Everyone where ALDA serves as a consultant, in presentation of the outcomes of the project as well as of a number of other best practices for all to adopt in the field.
“Inclusive tourism is good for everyone”. Starting from this assumption, the GATE project has set as its objective to develop tourism offers for the disabled.
What is perceptual sensitivity? What does it mean to be perceptually sensitive? There are different types of sensitivity, but the best definition is perhaps offered to us by Dumitru Novac, a little known yet talented and thoughtful writer who is particularly adept and tactful at narrating sensations: “Sensitivity is a precious and rare gift. Those […]
September 2020 will be a month full of appointments and success for the Gate Project in Parco Rossi. The romantic garden in Santorso (province of Vicenza) is the cornerstone of a complex system founded between 1865 and 1884 by Alessandro Rossi, a textile entrepreneur and politician. Next month, the organisers will conduct a dry run […]
View of POI for visitors with special needs in the IT-Tool GATE developed by independent L. Before choosing the destination for their holidays, tourists search for information. Nowadays, this search is done mainly online and for this reason GATE aims at developing online tools that can provide barrier-less accessibility and promote inclusive tourism for everyone. […]
COVID-19 did not prevent CAI Alpago from moving forward with the realisation of its “Sentiero della Sensibilità” which, starting next autumn, will give a particularly valuable sporting-social contribution to this piedmont trail at 1000 m MSL. Lots of evaluations and surveys and several meetings to create a trail for all those who by age, physical […]
The GATE project is not only dedicated to disabled people, but also to families with small children. Although hiking with children is a very popular activity in Europe, there are many difficulties that young families have to face both during the trip and in the place chosen for the holiday, mainly due to the lack […]
Although the smallest system in the Dolomites World Heritage Site, the Bletterbach might be called its “Grand Canyon”. This Natural Monument is a narrow gorge carved by the Bletterbach stream. Following the succession of layers, from the volcanic rocks at the base to the white carbonates of the White Horn, the gorge allows us to […]