LANDSCAPE INTERPRETATION IN INCLUSIVE TOURISM PRACTICE: ADAPTED RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES

Santana-Santana et al focus on landscape interpretation in inclusive tourism practice. The authors focused on the search for inclusive material to be presented as a mediation tool for visually impaired people to discover, understand and enjoy the landscape. The proposal focuses on designing and elaborating tactile material as an instrument for the knowledge and enjoyment of the most representative geographical attractions of areas of high landscape value, promoting the understanding of the most characteristic elements of the selected areas. They seeks to highlight the importance of knowing various components of the landscape through touch, considered as one of the primary requirements to be able to speak of universal accessibility in a cultural, artistic or natural environment, in a direct way.