Brazilian Slavery Freedom Trail is Also Accessible to Blind Travelers

Here is a time-sensitive contest that deserves your consideration:

Inclusive Tourism specialists Joedson Nunes and Solange Barbosa are semi-finalists in the Geotourism Challenge. Let's vote them into the winning three!


During the application period for the 2009 Ashoka Changemaker/National Geographic Geotourism Challenge I remained an impartial Featured Commentator. Now that one of our own members is a finalist, Joedson Nunes ("Nunes" to his friends), I am unabashed cheerleader!

Some know that Craig Grimes, Jani Nayar, Ricardo Shimosakai, Nelida Barbeito and I visited Brazil together several years ago to evangelize on Inclusive Tourism. Nunes was behind the familiarizatin tour to the accessible adventure camp "Parque dos Sonhos" where we all zip-lined a full kilometer over a river valley. We forever became fans of Nunes' skills and professionalism.

Below is an appeal from him to put his already blind-accessible Brazilian Slave Liberation Route tour into the top three finalists. Join me in voting for this project!

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Dear Friends of Reality Tour,

 We're in the finals of the Geotourism Challenge 2009! We need your vote to get to the world's top 3.

  The Route of Freedom follows the UNESCO guidelines for Cultural Tourism. UNESCO has a worldwide project "The Slave Route", showing through history, culture, architecture, gastronomy, dance, music and religion the African influence in Brazilian culture. It includes tourist routes and destinations as a showcase of that influence.

Our project also seeks partnerships and sponsorships to make its routes accessible to people with disabilities.

How to vote:

1 - Register at this link: http://geotourism.changemakers.com/en-us?

2 - You will receive a e-mail with a password, use it to vote at this link:

 http://geotourism.changemakers.com/en-us/node/16599/vote

3 - You have to vote for three projects

4 - Our project is listed as: ROUTE OF FREEDOM - "Cultural Tourism Collaborating to the Memory of the African Diaspora in Brazil" Reality Tour Viagens e Turismo Ltda

 http://geotourism.changemakers.com/en-us/node/24996?

THANK YOU ALL

Joedson Nunes - Europe
International Coordinator of the Route of Freedom
Adapted Tourism
Phone: (0044) 020 7701 0934 Mobile: (0044) 075 0596 9717

Address: 109, Mary Datchelor Close - London - SE5 7DY
MSN e Email: nunes_op@hotmail.com

Solange Barbosa - Brazil
Coordinator of the Route of Freedom
Phone: 55 (12) 3672-3427

Address: Rua Bom Jesus, 183 - Centro - Tremembe - SP
E-mail: realitytour@uol.com.br Site: www.realitytour.com.br

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