The UF Travel Guide - Your online source for "Accessible Travel Made Easy!"

Having a disability, whether short term or permanent, does not stop people from wanting to travel for pleasure or business. Accessible travel - travel by people with disabilities - is often a daunting adventure which brings challenges other travelers do not face.

While travel opportunities for people with disabilities have grown dramatically in recent years, and travel by those now being referred to as the "Maturing Market" on the rise, locating appropriate accommodations continues to be a challenge.

Today locating appropriate accommodations for someone who has diminished hearing, impaired vision, or who may be wheelchair dependent, can be an arduous task, which is often compounded by the problems associated with the misuse of the international symbol of accessibility.

The UF Travel Guide is an online publication brought about by the need to provide the important travel information travelers with disabilities, elders, and their families require -- including accessible transportation, lodging accommodations, and dining facilities.

Utilizing our unique rating system, as explained under the UF Rating System, trained professionals perform in-depth barrier free appraisals and apply this easy to use color rating system. Facilities that reflect an accessible, "user-friendly" environment are thereby awarded the "UF Seal of Approval."

A registered trademark designed to correct the problems brought on by the misuse of the international symbol of access, the "UF Seal of Approval" offers a simple solution.

The UF Travel Guide Difference...

Easily recognized by people with disabilities, as well as the general public, this simple system provides everyone a reference tool which minimizes the guesswork and allows consumers to make more educated and informed choices.

This newly developing guide will soon provide people who were once unable to travel due to physical limitations the information to the appropriate accommodations they need to travel - in a quick, convenient, and easy to use format. (Follow this link to see a sample page)

Geared initially to focus on high destination areas the primary purpose for the project is geared to providing important travel information including the most accessible transportation, lodging accommodations, and dining facilities, as well as additional resources tourists with disabilities require such as health care services and products, as well as durable goods and other resources available in order to experience safe, healthy, and enjoyable, carefree travel.

The UF Travel Guide will offer and promote accessible travel opportunities, vacation and cultural destinations as well as tips, guides, resources, stories, and regional newsletters packed with accessible travel and destination information. Funding will be provided by national, regional, statewide, and local sponsors as well as revenue accrued through online marketing referral programs.

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The UF Travel Guide

"Not Just Responding To Change, but Creating It!"

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