The Town Hall gives another step forward to convert the municipality in a reference in the tourist offer for disabled people
Calvià, presented its new Plan "Calvià, Accessible Todo el Año" (Calvià, Accessible all year round), almost a year ago, with the aim of facilitating a real tourism for everybody. Thus, convert Calvià in an International reference within the tourist offer for disabled people and at the same time increase the market´s share and fight against the tourist stationalisation, was the premise marked, then, by the Calvià Town Hall and through which they have been working for. Now, the government team, directed by the Mayor Carlos Delgado, has given an important step forward to achieve this objective, with the publishment of the new "Accessible Calvià" guide, a perfect tool which compiles the Calvià´s complete tourist offer and the level of accessibility presented. And, once more, the Town Hall has been pioneer with the publishing of this guide through which its intention is to offer objective and detailed information of all the tourist establishments in the municipality in order to let anyone, evaluate and decide which of the registered in the "Accessible Calvià" guide is the best one according to their necessities and encourage, therefore, the visit of this group of people to the municipality of Calvià.
Published by the Town Hall and by the Foundation Calvià 2004 in Spanish, English and German, this first guide, which will be a reference for future ones in which the participation of more companies, connected to the sector is expected, offers detailed information about the accessibility´s criterion of the sport facilities, beaches, hotels, restaurants and bars, leisure, health centres, transport, tourist offices, etc., as well as telephones of interest in the municipality and assistance service at the Spanish airports for people with reduced mobility.
The guide will be available in all and each of the Tourist Information Offices in the municipality and also in the more than 20 tourist fairs to which the Town Hall attends to promote the accessible tourism. Also, it is to be recalled that Calvià attended the Rehacare Fair (Düsseldorf) to know, first hand, of the market´s latest novelties regarding the elimination of architectural barriers, also is the first Spanish municipality integrating in the Red Europea de Turismo Accesible (ENAT) European Accessible Tourism Network, from where the "Turismo para Todos" (Tourism for all), is promoted.
The guide will also have its establishment in a digital format and will be introduced in the municipal tourist promotion channels such as the web visitcalvia.com.
This guide´s publishment is added to the various actions that the Town Hall has developed to offer a destination available for everybody, with no distinction and/or exclusion and to help them to be tourists with total rights, a 40% of the world´s popullation who, on the contrary, would not be able to accomplish.
The disabled people group, represents the 9% of the Spanish popullation and the 10% of the European popullation and more than 500 million of people in the world are integrated in it. This part of the popullation, collaborate within the tourist destationalisation; the fact is that a 51% of this group, according to the European Union, do not have work responsibilities, which makes it easier for them, to travel at any time of the year.