…give a look at disability twice, establish between the first and second look an intensive plan to learn to unlearn, to drain our absurd ideas on unknown emotions, to separate what we feel by experience from what we feel by tradition. A plan of tranquillity and silence, of getting rid of adjectives, of taking a distance from the known and gaining proximity to the unthought of, that will bring to this second look the authentic reality of what is being looked at.
José Félix Sanz Juez
La Segunda Mirada (Editorial Polibea)
May this transitory edition (February 2007) of our e-bulletin show our most sincere gratitude to the Companies and Institutions who support our Web site. Their confidence and collaboration combined with our work will hopefully accelerate a process which, no doubt, will place us, rather sooner than later, in a scenario where terms like accessible, without barriers, universal, for all etc… won’t be in use any longer and we will just talk of Tourism of Quality, i. e.: offering an integral service suitable to each type of client regardless their particular conditions.
While we are designing some changes in the format and presentation of Turismo @ Polibea for our March issue, the 2007 “Mobility and/or Communication Impaired Traveller's Guide to Spain” will be permanently available in our website. Therefore our proposal for you in this present e-magazine is to browse through the “Bulletin Archives” where you will be able to read all articles published since our very first number was launched (May 2004 for the Spanish version and October 2005 for the English one), to click on the “Guest Writer's” section and read through thoughts and reflections on what is called Accessible Tourism some personalities have been so generous as to share with us all. I’d like to recommend watching three interesting videos (two of them available in YouTube).
Finally I’d like too to thank you for the compliments we have received and the interest shown in our work (we have widely surpassed 12,000 visitors to our website in January) and I’d like to encourage you to contact us: your suggestions, opinions, reflections, remarks and criticism are always welcome. From them all we try to get the energy that will help us to perform better.
Santiago Salgado Balbellido
Director Polibea Turismo
