N.O. BARRIER Project

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THE PROJECT N.O. BARRIER, funded within the ETCP Programme Greece – Italy 2007 - 2013 Axis III Measure 3.3, has been created with the overall objective to increase accessible tourism in the Region of Puglia (Italy) and Region of Western Greece and the Ionaian Islands (Greece).

No Barrier logoTHE PROJECT N.O. BARRIER, funded within the ETCP Programme Greece – Italy 2007 - 2013 Axis III Measure 3.3, has been created with the overall objective to increase accessible tourism in the Region of Publia (Italy) and Region of Western Greece and the Ionaian Islands (Greece).

More specifically, the project N.O. BARRIER is aimed at implementing a consistent set of interventions to reduce barriers that do not allow disabled people to fully enjoy territories, by acting both on physical-material barriers and on intangible barriers, namely all cultural and social hurdles turning disabled people away from tourist fruition: information, communication, services, etc.

Such overall objective is intended to be achieved through the following specific objectives:

  1. Implementing and promoting research/action interventions aimed at identifying and appraising national and international case histories and raising cultural-touristic operators' as well as local authorities' awareness as to the theme of accessibility;
  2. Developing and experimenting methods and tools to “certify” and make accessible places recognizable and more visible by creating a system of attribution of “labels”, shared with associations of disabled people;
  3. Proving that the removal of material and immaterial barriers is feasible and economically and socially cheap, as it is achieved through some structural interventions such as equipping a beach accessible, improving information services for disabled people, producing tools ("itineraries without barriers") and spreading them in order to promote accessible places;
  4. Creating a network of stable relationships between involved actors, with the aim to adopt methods and tools realized, by entering into follow-up agreements;
  5. Accelerating the process of "deseasonalization of touristic flows" in the field of socio-cultural tourism in order to optimize resources, increase competitiveness and profitability and create substantial conditions for new opportunities for all, by arranging tourist packages.
  6. It is evident that, through an innovative, multidimensional and multidisciplinary approach, the project tends to combine and involve the tourist and the social sectors in a close synergy, thus proposing an innovative view of economic development.

Outputs

The project partners have produced numerous itineraries and information laeflets for vsistors with disabilties, avialable as free downloads in English and Italian. 

An app is also available, with information for travellers in the regions. 

Visit the N.O. Barrier project website

Partners

LEAD PARTNER:

Province of Bari
Phone: +39 080 5412334
e-mail: politichecomunitarie@provincia.ba.it

PROJECT PARTNERS

  • Province of Lecce
  • Region of Western Greece
  • Region of Ionian Islands
  • Municipality of Bari
  • IPRES Apulian Institute for Economic and Social Research
  • CIRPAS University of Bari “Aldo Moro”
  • Municipality of Nardò