Travel, a personal passion
Both sides – bridge the gap
If you want or need something, you might lose the other persons views. When it comes to accessibility, you need both sides. When focusing on what IS possible, rather than on what not, progress is made.
Over the years Marlies met many travelers, hotel managers and accessible travel experts and gained a lot of knowledge. She offers through Accessible Travel Online the opportunity for them to meet each other.
Customers and Businesses
Marlies has learned about life stories of many people, using a wheelchair, having a visual impairment, an invisible disability, living life with an assisance dog.
Each story brought more insight to improve the structure of Accessible Travel Online.
Over 15 years, she has met thousands of business owners, sharing information and tips with them about the need for and benefits of good accessibility in their business.
Whether in Amsterdam where Accessible Travel Online is based, or abroad, the existing problem causing the absence of (great) accessibility is the lack of bridges. She became a bridge builder.
Bridge Builder
To build a bridge, you need to think about many different things.
Distance of the gap you need to cross, building material, how to use it and how to make sure it is safe. Starting with a new way of thinking, Marlies has built Acceessible Travel Online.
Stop thinking I versus them
Accessibility is not just the right thing to do to make you a better person.
It matters to all.
If you stop thinking, as many still do, the ‘I versus Them’ conundrum, for example businesses thinking of costs without realizing the benefits, things will remain the same.
Building a solid bridge that people would dare to cross, both ways, is quite hard. It needs good thinking. Without a bridge though, the gap will be there and people from either side will never meet.
Building material
To build, you need the right material. In this case, people on both sides of the bridge have a totally different view on what material is needed, or if that bridge should be permanent or used upon occasion.
Accessible Travel Foundation
When you have a disability and you love to travel, nothing should stop you. However, you need to go through various labyrinths, hundreds of rainforests, cross deserts where you find absolutely nothing and you need mountains of time.
How to find the right information? How can you be sure it is true and reliable?
Embracing the online world combined with local experience and knowledge, Accessible Travel Online has the perfect building stones for a solid bridge. One of them is the Accessible Travel Foundation.
Working with people around the world, who know not only the language and the culture of their country, but also the accessible highlights, museums, the best restaurants and parks, is the raw material the bridge can be made of.
Combining a passion for travel, a long history of collecting stories from both sides, Marlies will continue to build Accessible Travel Press to be a solid, internationally accepted, bridge for generations to come.
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