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ATTA has publicly recognized the importance of increased accessibility in adventure travel since at least 2008, when the Adventure Travel World Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil featured a concurrent session on Innovation & Best Practices: Serving Specialty Needs – Accessibility and Adventure. Although the travel industry is beginning to understand this and accommodate a wider range of people, there is more work to be done to understand how to make destinations and businesses most accessible. This post provides key insights through about accessibility in the full visitor experience cycle.

This report presents COVID-19 pandemic health & safety guidelines for ten adventure activities – Trekking, Cycling, Rafting, Camping including Food Prep in the field, Culinary Experiences, Cultural Tours/Sightseeing, Small Lodges, Small Vessels Cruising, Skiing & Snowboarding, and Wildlife Experiences – as well as an overarching guideline for the industry, all created in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, a world renowned healthcare provider, and the adventure travel industry.

In this webinar, CEO Shannon Stowell, and Dr. Jim Merlino from Cleveland Clinic, review the newly released overarching Adventure Travel COVID-19 health & safety guideline.