Traveleyes
Traveleyes is the world’s first commercial international air tour operator (as distinct from a charity) that specialises in serving blind as well as sighted travellers. The company was founded in 2004 by Amar Latif, due to his inability to find tour-operators that would allow him, due to his severe vision loss. Traveleyes allows tours to every continent except Antarctica. [1]
Holiday Tours[edit]
Each holiday group includes an equal number of blind/partially sighted and sighted individuals. Blind travellers pair daily with different sighted ones, and the sighted traveller describes the sights to their blind partner. The role of the sighted individual is to be a fellow traveller and not to act as a carer. Travellers with healthy vision may receive a discount of up to 50% for providing assistance to the vision impaired on the travel tour. [2]
Lonely Planet Guides[edit]
As well as acting as a holiday operator, Traveleyes works in conjunction with Lonely Planet travel guides to produce specially formatted travel guides for blind and visually impaired travellers.[3][4] The specially formatted guides are produced on CD, and run on PCs and PDAs, through speech programmes and magnification software. Guides are currently available for Malta, Morocco, California, Italy, Cuba, Crete, Canada, and Andalucía.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ "TravelEyes: Group Holidays for Sighted & Visually Impaired Travellers". Avanti. 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ↑ "Group Holidays With A Difference - About Us - Traveleyes". traveleyes-international.com. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Request a brochure". Traveleyes. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
- ↑ "TravelConnect - Independent Travel for Visually Impaired". Archived from the original on 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2008-02-01. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
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- "Amar Latif". Retrieved 2018-05-01.
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