“Barrier-free Frankfurt am Main” provides comprehensive travel information for disabled and mobility impaired people, helping them to plan, book and realise their trips easily. The brochure’s individual chapters inform on a variety of handicapped-related aspects, e.g., whether a sightseeing attraction, festival or trade show offers barrier-free access, has toilets for disabled persons or permits guide dogs on the premises. “Barrier-Free Frankfurt” also offers detailed information on the accessibility of Frankfurt Internatiponal Airport, the main train station and the city’s public transportation network as a whole. Moreover, it provides a selection of relevant addresses, such as those of pharmacies and medical supply stores. A separate leaflet lists the contact details of hotels featuring particularly wheelchair-friendly guest-rooms. Finally, the brochure also includes a special city map indicating public toilets and parking spaces for the handicapped as well as a comprehensive network plan of the RMV.

Barrier Free Frankfurt Symbols

Optically, the new brochure differs in style from other TCF brochures. Barrier-free design was applied in catering specifically to the target group in question. The generous A4 format, a minimum font size of 12 dots, black print on a white background and clear lines in regard to text and image all combine to ensure that the special needs of vision-impaired readers are met. Symbols that represent the respective chapter headings, a clearly arranged content structure and a user-friendly layout help to further improve reader orientation. The brochure’s ring binding, meanwhile, makes it easier to stay on a specific page, e.g., to keep it in place on the lap of a wheelchair-bound individual.

There is an online portal at www.frankfurt-handicap.de. The TCF has adapted its new brochure to the contents of this city guide, taking into consideration the best interests of disabled travellers wherever possible.

Feeling Frankfurt City Tour

The newly developed “Feeling Frankfurt” tour pays particular attention to the needs of vision-impaired persons, featuring many anecdotes, touch objects and taste tests. All of the TCF’s public guided tours may be adapted to be fully wheelchair-accessible, with sign language interpreters available upon prior request.

When considering that special assistance is often required not only by handicapped individuals but parents with strollers or prams, travellers with heavy luggage and an increasing number of senior citizens, it becomes clear that this extended target group will in the near future represent over fifty percent of the overall population. With its barrier-free measures, the TCF is following the example of other German cities in adequately addressing the needs of this significant group.

Contact:

Frankfurt Tourist+Congress Board, Kaiserstr. 56, 60329 Frankfurt, Germany

c/o Ms. Gisela Moser, Tel: +49 (0) 69 / 21 23 03 98, Fax: +49 (0) 69 / 21 23 78 80,
E-mail: [email protected], Internet: www.frankfurt-tourismus.de

More information on barrier-free Frankfurt, dates of public barrier-free city tours and the brochure for download can be found here www.frankfurt-tourismus.de/barrier-free.html

Source: Homepad

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