Tourism Organization to Create a 'Special Tourist Guidebook' for Disabled Persons' Day

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Donghyun] The Korea Tourism Organization announced on the 20th that it will conduct a gift campaign for a 'Special Tourism Guidebook' for the visually impaired until the 31st of next month in celebration of 'Disability Day.'

The Special Tourism Guidebook introduces five travel destinations among 'Open Tourism Sites,' which are tourist spots that are convenient and safe for vulnerable groups, including ▲Goryeong Daegaya Historical Theme Tourism Site ▲Buyeo Gungnamji Pond ▲Jeonju Hanok Village ▲Suwon Hwaseong Fortress ▲Geoje Chilcheonryang Naval Battle Park, in braille, large print, and audio formats. In particular, symbolic materials representing tourist sites such as the lotus flowers of Gungnamji Pond and the Jang-anmun Fortress Wall were made tactile to enhance indirect experiential effects.

This campaign involves creating pages where participants can feel such symbolic objects through touch and is conducted with 500 participants on Naver Happy Bean's 'Gabolka' platform.

Participants receive guidebook production materials at home, watch instructional videos, attach tactile components for each tourist site to complete the guidebook, and then send it back to the designated address. The 500 guidebooks produced in this way will be distributed to schools for the visually impaired, special schools and special classes, public libraries, and organizations for the visually impaired nationwide. For participation applications and more detailed information, please refer to the campaign page.

Park Insik, head of the Tourism Welfare Center at the Korea Tourism Organization, said, "We will continue to produce various barrier-free informational content based on open tourism sites."

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