Moving forward towards the quality of the destination Cartagena, on Wednesday was presented Cartagena Tourist Guide in Braille, who has edited the National Organization of the Blind (ONCE), in collaboration with the Department of Tourism of the City of Cartagena in order that blind people who visit us to know the city and its heritage.
You have to work from within the city to make it a quality tourist destination to the outside, to have a good image of the city accessible, they explained during the presentation of the Guide the mayor of Tourism, Palazón Carolina, which has accompanied by the director of ONCE in Cartagena, Miguel Paradise, and the director of the Hotel Alfonso XIII, Juan Carlos Garcia.
In addition to these guides in Braille, Palazón, who recalled the Access City Award, which was awarded to Cartagena two years ago, noted other initiatives that are taking place within a comprehensive plan to make our city accessible to all type of tourists, whatever their disability, such as courses for tourist guides visitors with disabilities, being made ​​for some time, it will also work on the signage Museums and Information Centre and the following will be the website, all to move forward in this plan.
As for the promotion of tourism towards this kind of public, the councilor has announced that, following the contacts that were made ​​in the latest edition of FITUR with travel wholesaler ONCE, these have borne fruit in the summer and we will visit to see the work being carried out in Cartagena to have prepared our city as destination.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena