Tandem is the coordinator of App Tour You. It is a social cooperative for the job insertion of people with disabilities, born in 1997 from a European project on tourism. It is expert in development of contact centers on disability issues and, accessible tourism information services and training. Tandem has developed and participated into many European projects in the field of accessibility, inclusion, and tourims for all.
ASM -Market Research and Analysis Centre is a private non-profit research SME founded in 1996 and specialized in socio-economic, market and business research and analysis. Company has extensive experience in both quantitative and qualitative research where quality is ensured by annual audit coordinated by Polish Association of Public Opinion and Marketing Research Firms. ASM is also a leader in the field of market research for the construction sector in Poland; a member of the European Construction Technology Platform and the coordinator of the Polish Construction Technology Platform. ASM has been Involved in projects connected with the training approach in the tourism sector, as well as the ICT & Ageing area. In 2011ASM was granted the status of a Research and Development Centre by the Polish Minister of Economy.
ENAT, the European Network for Accessible Tourism is a Belgian non-profit association, founded in 2008. Its mission is to make European tourism destinations, products and services accessible to all visitors and to help promote Accessible Tourism around the world. The website, www.accessibletourism.org is the Internet site of ENAT, holding over 1800 pages of items with more than 3000 documents, 100+ projects and good practices and 100+ global links related to Accessible Tourism. It is the largest European resource base on accessible tourism in one website. ENAT also manages Pantou the European Accessible Tourism Directory, an online register of accessible tourism suppliers from across Europe.
Catalonia Directorate General for Tourism, Spain
Directorate General for Tourism is the body of the Government of Catalonia responsible for designing, coordinating and implementing tourist policies, developing planning tools, ordering and controlling tourist establishments, coordinating activities related to the analysis, the study, the knowledge, the research and the definition of strategies of tourism sector, enforcing inspection, sanction and tourism discipline authority related to the tourist establishments, and business and tourism activities.
HOTREC represents the hotel, restaurant and café industry at European level. This industry includes around 1,8 million businesses, of which 99% are small and medium sized enterprises (91% of them micro enterprises, i.e. employing fewer than 10 people). These businesses make up some 59% of industry value added. The hospitality industry provides some 10.2 million jobs in the EU alone. Together with the other tourism industries, the sector is one of the largest industries in Europe. HOTREC brings together 43 national associations representing the sector in 29 different European countries.
INCIPIT Consulting Soc. Coop. is a company formed in 2014 by a team of six professionals who have been operating in the field of tourism since the mid ’80s as researchers and trainers with both academic expertise and business knowledge. Leveraging the extensive experience gained by its members, Incipit Consulting conducts research studies and offers innovative and customized training and consultancy services to businesses and institutions operating in the tourism sector.
Institute and travel agency “Premiki” is social entreprise dedicated to persons with disabilities, their families and friends. We believe in the concept “tourism for all”, where disability, age and other circumstances only challenge us on the way to create better, more inclusive and equitable everyday life.