Holiday mobility of disadvantaged people
20108
From 2020 to 2021
This study presents concrete options for making mobility to and from Flanders, as well as holidays in the region, accessible to people with financial or physical barriers. TML examined some 30 potential options based on literature review, interviews, and a sounding board group, with three selected options analysed in depth.
Today, it is difficult for people with barriers to go on holiday. The reasons are diverse: financial constraints, limited supply of public transport, no adapted vehicles, etc. Our research revealed two concrete and feasible project paths that Tourism Flanders can now shape in a pilot project.
The first track is making rental bikes available at holiday destinations, free for people with a threshold, paying for people without a threshold. The second slope is to open up the Less Mobile Central (MMC) to people with disabilities to make their holidays possible. We first compiled a longlist of existing initiatives at home and abroad. From this longlist, we selected six initiatives for which we prepared a detailed fiche. From these, we selected the three most promising initiatives, which we then examined in detail as to their feasibility for application in Flanders. To this end, we talked to key stakeholders and studied a business case.
TML used its relevant experience in organising mobility for target groups with limited potential. This concerns the experience gained in the SMARTA project: setting up mobility in rural areas in Europe and the Transport Region Leuven, organising, among other things, Transport op Maat (VoM).
Tourism Flanders will see how it proceeds with this in the coming months. If all goes well, the organisation wants to start a pilot project for the tracks provided.
The public version of the report can also be downloaded via the website Iedereen Verdient Vakantie (Toerisme Vlaanderen).
Since this study, there has also been an external project with Mpact in Limburg, Summer on Wheels, started from Iedereen Verdient Vakantie. In it, they are jointly focusing on the last mile. Holidaymakers arriving in Lommel, Genk or Hasselt can call on Mpact's holiday centre, where a driver is sought to take holidaymakers to their accommodation. In this experiment, the region, the period (June, July, August), and the partners involved (ledgers among Rap-op-stap offices) were determined. In September, they will evaluate this and see how it can or cannot be rolled out in other regions with tourism potential, in conjunction with that mobility challenge.
Today, it is difficult for people with barriers to go on holiday. The reasons are diverse: financial constraints, limited supply of public transport, no adapted vehicles, etc. Our research revealed two concrete and feasible project paths that Tourism Flanders can now shape in a pilot project.
The first track is making rental bikes available at holiday destinations, free for people with a threshold, paying for people without a threshold. The second slope is to open up the Less Mobile Central (MMC) to people with disabilities to make their holidays possible. We first compiled a longlist of existing initiatives at home and abroad. From this longlist, we selected six initiatives for which we prepared a detailed fiche. From these, we selected the three most promising initiatives, which we then examined in detail as to their feasibility for application in Flanders. To this end, we talked to key stakeholders and studied a business case.
TML used its relevant experience in organising mobility for target groups with limited potential. This concerns the experience gained in the SMARTA project: setting up mobility in rural areas in Europe and the Transport Region Leuven, organising, among other things, Transport op Maat (VoM).
Tourism Flanders will see how it proceeds with this in the coming months. If all goes well, the organisation wants to start a pilot project for the tracks provided.
The public version of the report can also be downloaded via the website Iedereen Verdient Vakantie (Toerisme Vlaanderen).
Since this study, there has also been an external project with Mpact in Limburg, Summer on Wheels, started from Iedereen Verdient Vakantie. In it, they are jointly focusing on the last mile. Holidaymakers arriving in Lommel, Genk or Hasselt can call on Mpact's holiday centre, where a driver is sought to take holidaymakers to their accommodation. In this experiment, the region, the period (June, July, August), and the partners involved (ledgers among Rap-op-stap offices) were determined. In September, they will evaluate this and see how it can or cannot be rolled out in other regions with tourism potential, in conjunction with that mobility challenge.
