A new City Guide with 5 accessible routes through Amsterdam has been developed by Accessible Travel Netherlands in close cooperation with the Dutch design company Field Factors. The 5 short accessible routes travel past barrier free restaurants, museums and sights of interest. All venues along the route are accessible for people with limited mobility. Additionally, the city guides provides accessibility information about public transport and shopping streets. The goal of developing this guide was to provide routes with no or very limited steps. Bridges will be found along the routes, but the most challenging bridges have been avoided.

The city guide is available as online and printed versions in English and Dutch. People that have booked their trip to Amsterdam with Accessible Travel Netherlands will receive the online city guide. Other visitors to Amsterdam can pick up a printed version from Starbikes Rental in Amsterdam, a bike rental where special bikes and wheelchairs are available for hire. The online version can be downloaded from the website.

Accessible Travel Netherlands is run by Veroniek Maat, a one-time intern at the New Zealand Tourism Research Institute at AUT University.  Maat has a Masters in  Leisure, Tourism, and Environment from Wageningen University,  and has written a number of guest articles for Access Tourism NZ in the past, most recently about creating an accessible tourism network in the Netherlands.    The city guide was realized with support from Starbikes Rental, Amsterdam Marketing, Province Noord-Holland and Nationale Vereniging de Zonnebloem.   Follow on Twitter: @AccesstravelNL  @starbikesrental @Stichting_AM @ProvincieNH

Source: Access Tourism NZ

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