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Information, Suggestions and Links to accessible travel

Accessible Travel

This list is compiled by ACB for distribution to individuals requesting such information. It is not intended as a complete list of travel publications or agents, nor does listing imply ACB endorsement. Not all organizations listed specialize in travel for persons who are blind or visually impaired.
http://www.acb.org/resources/travel.html

Mind's Eye Travel creates tours for people with visual impairments. The hosted trips let both visually challenged and fully sighted people tour comfortably and free of worry.
www.mindseyetravel.com

Candy Cain Travel is a full service travel company located in Brookhaven, NY, but works with clients all over the world. Even though their specialties are Destination Weddings and Group Travel, Candy Cain Travel can plan any travel arrangements you could possibly want. Candy Cain Travel is certified in Accessible Travel through Norwegian Cruiselines, and enjoys working with those that have special needs.
http://www.candycaintravel.com/

A full service agent travel agent. Cruises, Disney, Honeymoon Packages, Honeymoon Registry. I am also blind and work with the blind to travel independently.
www.echevarriatravel.com

Traveleyes is a travel company with a difference. We provide holidays for both blind/visually impaired and sighted travellers, journeying together in a spirit of mutual independence
http://www.traveleyes-international.com/

Providing Access Information and Resources to travelers with disabilities
http://access-able.com/graphical_index.html

If you’re blind or visually impaired it can be difficult to take a vacation, but not impossible. You just have to come prepared. For more tips, visit http://www.petergreenberg.com/category/accessible-travel

There are many different types of travel agents. You may want to find a "full service agent" that can help you with your flight, hotel, accessible van rental, and anything else you may need. Or if you are willing and able to make those arrangements yourself then you can use a specialized travel agent for a specific trip http://www.disabledtravelers.com/travel_agents.htm

The Society for Accessible Travel & Hospitality (SATH), founded in 1976, is an educational nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to raise awareness of the needs of all travelers with disabilities, remove physical and attitudinal barriers to free access and expand travel opportunities in the United States and abroad. Members include travel professionals, consumers with disabilities and other individuals and corporations who support our mission.
http://www.sath.org/

Sites dealing with Travel, Arts and Leisure issues and resources related to disabilities arranged alphabetically by site name.
http://www.icdri.org/Travel/TravelandLeisure.htm

DIVErsion provides paraplegics, amputees, and visually impaired visitors with the chance to scuba dive Australia 's Great Barrier Reef
http://diversionoz.com/

Outta Sight Travel is the beginning of dreams come true. Many people have had the desire to take a dream vacation, but thought that it could never become a reality.
http://outtasighttravel.com/

Internet’s Premiere Disabilities Travel Publication
http://www.gimponthego.com/index.htm

Tours of The Jewish Museum (New York, NY) can accommodate visitors with visual, hearing, or developmental disabilities.
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/index.php

Antenna Audio’s XP-vision™ Multimedia Player now makes tours of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum (College Station, Texas) accessible to blind people.
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/

The New World of Coca-Cola (Atlanta, Ga.), which features interactive theaters and an actual working bottling plant, provides free Softeq handhelds (Guest Services, main lobby) availing blind visitors of descriptive audio in multiple languages and closed captioning for all shows and exhibits.
http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/?page=visitorwelcome

The Rubin Museum of Art (New York, NY) offers free, one-hour Verbal Imaging and Touch tours (individual and group) for blind and visually impaired persons interested in the culture, history, religion, and arts of the Himalayas, the museum’s focus.
http://www.rmanyc.org/

The International Spy Museum feature tactile objects or audio components. For guests with sighted companions, a text-based map and description of these points of interest is available. Guests may also participate in a regularly scheduled audio-described tour of the Museum. Led by a professional audio-describer, this tour is 90 minutes in length and covers the key content, labels, audio-visual presentations, and sites in the permanent exhibition, and includes tactile artifacts.
http://www.spymuseum.org/

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) offers reduced fares on its subways, buses, and commuter railroads to customers with disabilities. These web pages include detailed information about reduced fare programs and a variety of other ADA-accessible services MTA agencies provide. Click on the menu links above to find out more about these services, as well as paratransit programs. You may also find the “Useful Phone Numbers” link a quick and convenient reference source.
http://www.mta.info/mta/ada/

Use of Travel Aids by Blind Persons http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(on1nwzqytl3lhnrza4rruw55))/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-Act-10-of-1937.pdf