The 100 new ‘Detailed Access Guides’ are for tourism businesses located across Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh & Lothians, Fife, Dundee and Angus, and South of Scotland.
AccessAble qualified access surveyors assessed the businesses to help create the guides which are listed on the AccessAble website and mobile app and on the business’ listing on visitscotland.com. Inclusive tourism is a valuable market for Scotland and covers a wide range of people, from those with hearing loss, mental or visual impairments, and wheelchair users, to senior travellers and families with young children.
Disabled people tend to travel in larger groups and stay longer, while the average senior traveller spends 35% more on leisure and hospitality than other age group. https://www.visitscotland.org/supporting-your-business/responsibletourism/inclusion AccessAble, originally called DisabledGo, was set up in 2000 by Dr. Gregory Burke, as a result of his own experiences as a wheelchair user and disabled walker.
It was rebranded in 2018 as AccessAble and its website is used by over 5 million people each year.
Hamish Hutchinson at hamish.hutchinson@visitscotland.com
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