Traveleyes

Traveleyes is the world’s first commercial international air tour operator (as distinct from a charity) that specialises in serving blind as well as sighted travellers. Established in 2005 by founder and director Amar Latif, the company is based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Traveleyes Holidays

Each holiday group includes an equal number of blind/partially sighted and sighted individuals. Blind travellers pair daily with different sighted ones, and the sighted traveller describes the sights to their blind partner. The role of the sighted individual is to be a fellow traveller and not to act as a carer. Sighted travellers receive a discount on the price of their holiday in return for this ‘use of their eyes’.

Although based in the UK, Traveleyes now takes bookings from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and indeed all parts of the world.

Lonely Planet Guides

As well as acting as a holiday operator, Traveleyes works in conjunction with Lonely Planet travel guides to produce specially formatted travel guides for blind and visually impaired travellers.[1][2] The specially formatted guides are produced on CD, and run on PCs and PDAs, through speech programmes and magnification software. Guides are currently available for Malta, Morocco, California, Italy, Cuba, Crete, Canada, and Andalucía.[1]

References
  1. "Request a brochure". Traveleyes. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  2. "TravelConnect - Independent Travel for Visually Impaired". Archived from the original on 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
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