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    New accessibility feature questionnaires

    VisitEngland has now published free questionnaires to help tourism product distributors and individual businesses to identify and promote the key accessibility features in their tourism venues. 

  • AccessAble’s Your Accessibility Guide portal launches
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    AccessAble’s Your Accessibility Guide portal launches

    Many disabled people are put off visiting somewhere new if there is no accessibility information available online, which is why we have joined forces with AccessAble to support hospitality and tourism businesses across England to provide detailed descriptions of their venue accessibility for visitors.

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    The AA and VisitEngland introduce new Visitor Ready and Modernised Schemes

    The AA, the UK’s leading hospitality assessment scheme provider, alongside VisitEngland, the national tourism agency, have today announced plans to futureproof the hospitality industry with a modernisation plan which simplifies the current quality standards and introduces the new and free Visitor Ready scheme. 

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    UK government launches new Disability Action Plan

    The government has launched a new Disability Action Plan which highlights the 32 steps to making the UK the most accessible place in the world for disabled people to live, work and thrive.

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