July 12, 2007
Environmental Travel Companions and More!
As I bring in delegations from Korea, South America, and around the US to participate in this year's Santa Cruz California Day on the Beach I find myself contacting local travel suppliers and arranging meetups. Below is contact information on some of the notable Inclusive Travel resources in the San Francisco Bay Area for the benefit of inbound travel agents, tourism researchers, and travelers with disabilities. Enjoy!
Environmental Travel Companions
http://www.etctrips.org/website/about.html
Environmental Traveling Companions (ETC) opens the beauty and challenge of outdoor adventures to people with special needs. Every year over 2,000 people of all abilities join us to raft whitewater rivers, ski across alpine meadows, sea kayak the waters of the Golden Gate and sleep beneath the open sky.
Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program
http://www.borp.org/
Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working to improve the health, independence and social integration of people with physical disabilities through sports, fitness and recreation programs. BORP was founded in 1976, by people with disabilities to create access to the outdoors, to fitness, to sports and to recreation for a population that had been left out. In the 1970's, there simply were no recreation programs in the state specifically for people with disabilities.
Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors (BAADS)
No Web site
PO Box 103730
San Francisco, CA 94119
415.282.0212 Phone - messages only
A non-profit organization that teaches sailing and offers outings on the San Francisco bay to people with disabilities. Every Sunday during most of the year they offer a sailing class. With enough advance notice it may be possible to arrange an individualized sailing.
Posted by rollingrains at July 12, 2007 05:25 PM