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Looking back at this year’s festival

It feels good to look back on this summer a little, doesn't it? People First - HU Association has prepared a short video summary of this year's 8th Accessible Tourism Day. Watch it and re-live it. The video was presented at a meeting of an international project of the...

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Looking back at this year’s festival

It feels good to look back on this summer a little, doesn't it? People First - HU Association has prepared a short video summary of this year's 8th Accessible Tourism Day. Watch it and re-live it. The video was presented at a meeting of an international project of the...

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Maps

To help you find your way around, we have prepared two maps for you again this year. On the first one you can see the venues of the experience elements.On the second one we have shown everything that might be important: parking, toilets, doctor's surgery, bus stops,...

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PROGRAMME POSTER 2024

Here is this year's programme poster! You can find all the information in one place here in the News menu of our website. For our sightless friends the text of the poster:Accessible Tourism Day 20247 September 2024.Welcome to all starting at 10 a.m. Island of...

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All info in one place!

The 8th Barrier-free Tourism Day will take place on Saturday 7. September in Orfű, from 10.00-16.00.Venues: the Island at lake "Nagytó" (Pécsi tó), the Medvehagyma House, the sports camp, the kayak pier. On the opposite side of the lake the sailing pier is for motor...

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Find the latest information on Facebook!

Follow the Barrier-free Tourism Day Facebook page, where you will now find daily (even several times a day) new information about this year's, 8th Barrier-free Tourism Day festival. You will find the information on the Facebook page one by one, so that we can provide...

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What experiences await you this year?

7. September 2024, on the VIII. Barrier-free Tourism Day, you can expect the following unforgettable experiences: Riding a motorbike, which you can take part in with any disability, don't be afraid of anything. The members of the South County Motorcycle Vigilante...

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Sponsor help us this year

We are very happy to have found a sponsor for this year's Barrier-free Tourism Day! Many of you know that the festival is built on volunteer work. Organisers, helpers, and most of the performers all given their time and effort free of charge, besides their job for 8...

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We are already organising 2024 programmes

This year there will be music, children’s activities, crafts, delicious food and, of course, experiential activities that you can’t experience anywhere else. Follow the latest news on our Facebook page

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SUMMARY of current information

The VII. Barrier-free Tourism Day Festival will be held on September 2, between 10.00 and 16.00 VENUE: Orfu, Lake Pécs. The main locations are the Island and the Medvehagyma House.Motorcyclists start from the parking lot of the Sports Camp. Driving up at the dam....

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Updated informations on Facebook!

Follow the Facebook page of the Barrier-free Tourism Day regularly, where we post new information about this year's festival almost daily! You can find out in detail what experiences can be expected this year.We also show the cultural programs and even detail them a...

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A taste of this year’s cultural programs

We were thinking about families arriving with children, so in the morning they will primarily have the terrain on the island. Adults and children can enjoy the program of the Hangoló Zenés Gyermekszínház (Children's Theatre), and the Bolhazsák (Flea Bag) children's...

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Aaaaaand…let’s start 2023!

THERE WILL BE BARRIER-FREE TOURISM DAY IN ORFU AGAIN THIS YEAR, although you may have thought there might not be one 🙂 The basic information, pass it on to everyone: 📌On September 2, between 10:00 and 16:00, we organize the VII. Barrier-free Tourism Day...

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Mood pictures from the 2022 festival

It's so good to look back at how much happened in September 2022 at the Barrier-free Tourism Day festival! Open the Home page of our website and scroll down to the post "Mood Pictures from 2022".Good scrolling through the pictures, good remembrance, and good...

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The organisers

Almádi Evelin – she gives volunteers a sensitizing workout at a personal briefing on the morning of the festival,. She is very keen on topic blind-guide dogs — maybe because she wants one? Berkes Gergő – organizes (and then, if necessary, a day before the festival...

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Sound and foot map

With this map we will show you not only the locations and individual events, but also which locations will be quiet, which ones will be loud. In which locations you will find grassy, gravelly terrain that is more difficult to roll with a wheelchair, and where it will...

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Radio interview

In the live "During the Day" broadcast of Kossuth Radio on August 15. Veronika Pataki and Róbert Posta organizing committee members talked about this year's Barrier-free Tourism Day event: about driving a car for the visually impaired and blind people, about...

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Infopoint

This is the center of all information! In this small caravan – next to the sports camp, towards the Medvehagyma Ház – on 3. September from 10:00 a.m. the volunteers are waiting for you and will give information about many things:about programs, accessible toilets, the...

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What and where can we eat?

At the Barrier-Free Tourism Day festival on 3. September, from 12.00 to 14.00, we are waiting for our guests with a FREE LUNCH again this year - primarily people with disabilities and their attendants, but we will not ask anyone for any certificates now either! Lunch...

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The relationship between art and disability

We are waiting for everyone for a special workshop on 2. September in Orfű! We have been organizing related programs around the Barrier-free Tourism Day for years, this year we invite you here. In a wonderful setting, we have a niche conversation about the...

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We also provide a retreat room

If you are arriving with a baby or need a completely secluded, QUIET PLACE for any reason, we provide a quiet undisturbed corner in the Library of the Municipality. Comfortable leather armchairs, diapering facilities, silence, tranquility await those who need it...

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Technical information!

Here's the TECHNICAL INFORMATION for festival attendees: – you can park in the parking lot in front of the municipality (opposite the sports camp), at the Minigolf, and opposite in the huge parking lot of the Aquapark (from here a few minutes walk / roll the venue on...

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Maybe we can finally make it accessible

It is an old plan of the organizing committee to make the grassy, bumpy, gravelly areas of the festival accessible. Perhaps this plan will finally realized, because we have found supporters who would lend us rubber sheets to make wheelchair rolling on the island and...

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Do I need to register?

Several of you have asked where to register for the experience programs (dragon boating, sailing, speedboating, motorcycling, driving and fishing). THERE IS NO NEED TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE, you can get answers to your questions on the spot in the INFO DESK set up at...

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These will be 2022 experience programs

The experience programs of 3. September 2022 have been completed!  There will also be a motorcycling ride this year with the friendly and helpful  Délvidéki Motorkerékpáros Kisérő és Polgárőr Egyesület (Southland Motorcycles and Civil Guard Association)...

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We are waiting for volunteers to apply

We are also looking forward to welcoming volunteers of all ages to the 2022 festival! Please send entries to the akadalymentes.turizmus.nap@gmail.com address. This year's festival will be held on Saturday, September 3rd, from 10.00 to 16.00 in Orfű at the locations...

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Organizing the 2022 festival has begun!

On 2, June the organizing committee met and we started preparing for this year's 6th Barrier-free Tourism Day! We have also added a new member: in addition to Zita Füziné Kajdy mayor, Tibor Gonda founder, Veronika Pataki, Zoltán Murányi, Evelin Almádi, Gergő Berkes...

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Take a look at pictures of this year’s festival

Take a look at pictures of this year's festival by scrolling down the Homepage of our website for "Mood pictures from 2021"! Here: https://akadalymentesnap.hu/?lang=en We also posted new pictures of our volunteers by scrolling down the Join/Volunteers menu in the...

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We’ve taken it to a new level

For the fifth time this year we were able to organize the Barrier-free Tourism Day, such a cohesive force in the country, which one of our visitors aptly said "something happened that took this year's Barrier-free Tourism Day to a different level from previous years"....

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Last consultation with the organizing committee

Yesterday was the last consultation with the organizing committee in Orfű, discussion and assignment of tasks and site visits with volunteers.Everything is clean, everyone knows everything, our blood pressure is as high as possible, sunny weather ordered, we can go! 🙂

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This year’s programme is progressing

There will definitely be motorcycling, dragon boating, fishing, driving a car, horse riding on this year's already 5th Barrier-free Tourism Day. There will be also sensitization programs for children and adults, food and drink, sports shows. And that's just the...

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We consulted with our volunteers

Volunteers and the organizing committee met today in Orfű at the Medvehagyma House and discussed the most important tasks of the V. Barrier-free Tourism Day. We'll start, you will soon read lots of info and if you can, you can help make everything's great again on...

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Information from the organising committee

Organisation has started. Here you can see a brief summary of the organizing committee meeting held on 22 February, on the Day of Hungarian Parasport. In the video we speak Hungarian. Ideas and supporters are welcome!...

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Well, let’s get this party started!

Well, we're going to start organizing the 5th - Birthday -Barrier free Tourism Day! On 22. February, on the occasion of the Hungarian Parasport Day, organizers will come together at the Medvehagyma House in Orfű, where we will talk about what we experienced last year...

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There’s a birthday party this year!

We're having a birthday this year, you know that? In September we are already organizing the 5th Barrier-free Tourism Day! We have already started preparing, and we will keep you informed, Just wach and follow us on our Facebook page for breaking...

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We have published a book on accessible tourism

The Peer-AcT international project has published a collection of studies entitled "Opportunities and challenges of barrier-free tourism in Hungary". The studies can be read in English and German about the results and recommendations of the professional workshop held...

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Alibi – the inclusive play at the festival

For the first time we prepared a play for the IV. Barrier-free Tourism Day. The play was special in many ways, as it was inclusive, i.e. it was written, directed and performed  together by disabled and able bodied people. The subject was also special, its...

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PARKING LOTS, TOILETS, FOOT MAP, SOUND MAP!

Here you can see where you can park on 5th September on the IV. Barrier-free Tourism Day. Accessible toilets are also indicated. You can also see the loud and quieter locations, and where the ground gets more problematic and where it gets easy.

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How to help and how not to..

Our peers with different disabilities have summed up in a short but enjoyable way how to help and not help a person with a disability. Read and spread to as many people as possible, very useful information! for a physically disabled The most important is not to do...

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Bendegúz the globetrotter in wheelchair

One of our most exciting programs this year will be the podium discussion with Lóránd Bendegúz Nagy, the globetrotter in wheelchair. Lóránd has been to more than 100 countries, even if they are not accessible at all! On the talk...

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Peer-counselor training in accessible tourism

We held a 'Peer-counselor in accessible tourism' 2-day online and 3-day personal training in our Peer-AcT international project for 10 people with disabilities in the days in Pécs. Participants can work as consultants by tourism organisations, decision-makers,...

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Event Programs 2023

We are still actively working on the programs of 2023, so please see a glimpse of last year's event below. Follow us on Facebook for up-to-date informations:Akadálymentes Turizmus Napja | Facebook

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Inclusive play, now for the first time!

For the first time this year, we're preparing a play for you in the IV. Barrier-free Tourism Day! People with disabilities and able bodied are performing their own piece on quarantine-time. The team is very motivated, they rehearse weekly at the Malom és Műhelyház...

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Information for tourism stakeholders

We also held an exciting briefing on accessible tourism in our workshop on Tuesday, 16th of June for tourism stakeholders and decision-makers. A large number of interested parties have heard from Veronika Pataki about the international Peer-AcT Erasmus+ project in 5...

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We had a program planning workshop

On 15-17th of June we held a workshop in Orfű/Tekeresen at the Natura Pension, where together we and our partners with disabilities decided together on the specific programmes of this year's Barrier-free Tourism Day. We would like to develop this year's programme with...

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Workshop in Orfű

A workshop will be held on 15-17 of June in Orfű/Tekeres in the Natura Pension, where together with our partners with disabilities we will decide on the specific programmes of this year's Barrier-free Tourism Day. We would like to develop this year's programme with a...

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Organizing committee meeting

The organizing committee met on 29 May 2020. and decided how to start to organize again after the epidemic the IV. Barrier-free Tourism Day. We're going to announce that we plan to have the big day on September 5th!Our website will be launched in a few days and you...

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