Accessibility / diversity training has been required for transportation/public entities for a while and I have actually conducted it for an airport bus company. There was no set curriculum, and it was mostly left to me with the company asking I focus on the perspective of an international traveler. Then they only had to submit that staff…

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Visit Flanders is a government organization. It’s the Tourism administration for the region (we don’t have a national tourism organization in Belgium). As the ministry for Tourism, Visit Flanders has its say on the development and promotion of Flanders. However, regular tourism education is the ministry of Education’s responsibility. We do have…

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Indeed, the current system with on the spot audits by accessibility experts is rather costly (for VisitFlanders). The sheer number of restaurants and bars in our country requires another approach. In my opinion, a label is most of all a means of promotion, provided that it’s backed by more specific – reliable and relevant – information and…

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So you do not label restaurants in Flanders. Understood.

Hello Pieter,

The kind of the subject organizations seem more or less the same.

I think the standard the labeling is requesting is not the one comparative to yours in VisitFlanders. It requires only

1 offering more than 3 kind of accessibility related service (you can choose the easiest three if you wish)

2 conducting accessibility related…

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