Inclusive & Accessible Business Award: ACCESSIBLE ACCOMMODATION
Open to all businesses that can demonstrate a high level of understanding of inclusive and accessible workplace practises, this year’s GBEA Inclusive & Accessible Award fittingly goes to Accessible Accommodation.
This category is proudly sponsored by the TAC.
As a business that advocates for people with disabilities, Accessible Accommodation provides comprehensive information on accommodation options for a variety of abilities. It is reliably updated and features booking functionality, providing accurate and in-depth information on accommodation options to ensure there are no nasty surprises upon arrival.
The team at Accessible Accommodation experienced this issue first hand, and decided to address the lack of data and the gap in the market.
Accessible Accommodation’s three-tiered rating system has been extremely popular with service users, and has also been adopted by the majority of tourism websites.
Staying true to its values, Accessible Accommodation is an avid supporter and campaigner of people with disabilities, through its Facebook group, partnerships with not-for-profit organisations and change.org petitions.
Further, Accessible Accommodation employs a variety of staff with different disabilities, ensuring that the service provided is understood by those that provide it.
“Accessible Accommodation has worked very hard to ensure that they employ people with lived experience of disability, which means that their customers can be confident their needs are understood,” the judges said.
“Through their Access Certification Scheme they have also been building awareness in the broader accommodation sector about the importance of accessibility and inclusion.
“In addition they have gone above and beyond their own business to advocate for better access and inclusion in the airline industry.”
