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• Jun 6, 2013 European Access City Award 2014 - A new Competition has been launched! 0 comments The award recognizes cities for their efforts to remove barriers in key aspects of everyday life.
• Jun 5, 2013 UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism 2013 - Call for Applications 0 comments UNWTO is inviting submissions for the 2013 Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism, which acknowledge the achievements of exceptional leadership in the sector. The nominations should be submitted before 1 October 2013.
• Jun 26, 2013 - Jun 28, 2013 IV International Congress of Tourism for All, Avila, Spain 0 comments Tourism has become and extremely important social phenomenon that mobilizes millions of people around the world. Thus, toursim is a social good that should be available to all citizens, so any group of people could not be excluded.
• Jun 14, 2013 - Jun 14, 2013 International Conference - Accessible Tourism and Piedmont for All - From Piedmont to Europe: Chances and opportunities in the market for accessible tourism 0 comments Accessible Tourism and Piedmont for All
  From Piedmont to Europe: Chances and opportunities in the market for accessible tourism
• Oct 1, 2013 - Oct 3, 2013 Save the Date! European Social Tourism Forum, 1-3 October 2013 - Belgium 0 comments 1 to 3 October 2013, Blankenberge, Belgium.
• Feb 21, 2013 IV International Congress of Tourism for All - Ávila, Spain,26-28 June 2013 0 comments Presentations of Communications, Workshops and Roundtables
• Feb 21, 2013 Wheelmap.org - A new application for wheelchair users 0 comments Wheelmap is an application for wheelchair users, for people with walking frames or pushchairs
• Jan 31, 2013 - Jan 31, 2013 Accessibility: A Competitive Advantage for Tourism Destinations 0 comments Jointly organized by UNWTO, the ONCE Foundation, and IFEMA, the event “Accessibility: A Competitive Advantage for Tourism Destinations”, to be held at the 2013 edition of the FITUR Madrid tourism fair, will highlight good practices in tourism accessibility from across Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on accessible destinations in Uruguay. A representant of EFC and one of the Municipality of Avila will be presenting the League of Historical and Accessible Cities.
• Dec 19, 2012 Smart Accessibility Awards: €200,000 prize for the best Android apps to assist disable and ealderly people 0 comments The Smart Accessibility Awards is a contest sponsored by Vodafone Foundation to promote the development of IT applications designed to improve the lives of those with disabilities and elderly people, to help them get more actively involved in society. This is an interesting contest that could give us an inspiration in our work on accessibility technologies.
• Dec 13, 2012 Berlin won the Access City Award 2013 0 comments On 3 December 2012 Berlin (Germany) was proclaimed as the winner of the Access City Award 2013.