Barrier-free congresses

Making events, congresses and meetings barrier-free requires precise advance planning. People with disabilities have different needs. That is why it is useful to start implementing the necessary measures right from the beginning. Contacts at the congress centres and conference hotels in Vorarlberg offer support to organisers in this regard.

You will find congress centres, conference hotels and providers of social programmes who offer very good conditions for barrier-free events:

Festspielhaus Bregenz

• Wireless system for visitors with impaired hearing
• Wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities are able to access all conference rooms by lift
• Up to 20 wheelchair spaces in the Great Hall
• Visitor guidance system (guiding channels and signage) for the visually impaired

Montforthaus Feldkirch

• Designated parking spaces in the underground car park of the Montforthaus and lift to the atrium
• Ground-level entrances to the atrium
• Wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities are able to access all conference rooms by lift
• WC in the atrium and rooftop restaurant
• Visitor guidance system from the nearby bus stop to the building and within the entire building (guiding channels and signage) for the visually impaired
• Wheelchair spaces in the Grand Hall
• Inductive hearing loop in the Gand Hall and on the gallery

FIRMAMENT, Rankweil

• Barrier-free parking and tactile guidance system to the main entrance (automatic opening)
• Wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities are able to access all event rooms by lift
• Two barrier-free hotel rooms (details in the barrier check)
• Restaurant accessible at ground level for wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities

Grand Hotel Bregenz MGallery Collection, Bregenz

• Barrier-free parking and asphalted path to the main entrance (automatic opening)
• All seminar rooms accessible without steps for wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities
• Lowered reception area
• Two barrier-free hotel rooms (details in the barrier check)
• Wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities are able to access the restaurant and terrace from ground level

Hotel Lamm, Bregenz

• Barrier-free parking and asphalted path to the main entrance (automatic opening)
• All seminar rooms accessible without steps for wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities
• Four barrier-free hotel rooms with emergency call system (details in the barrier check)
• Wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities are able to access the restaurant and terrace from ground level

Hotel Viktor, Viktorsberg

• All rooms with barrier-free shower and WC
• Shuttle service

Schloss Hofen, Lochau

• Wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities are able to access all seminar rooms by lift
• Two barrier-free hotel rooms
• Wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities are able to access the restaurant and garden by a ramp

Pfänderbahn, Bregenz

• Barrier-free parking (also for buses) and ramp to the entrance hall
• Entrances and exits at the same level and lowered panoramic windows
• Asphalted or paved path to restaurant Berghaus Pfänder
• WC facilities at the mountain and valley stations

Karrenseilbahn, Dornbirn

• Award for handicapped accessible design
• Two barrier-free parking spaces and access ramp to the entrance hall
• Entrances and exits at the same level and lowered panoramic windows
• Lift from the mountain station to the panorama restaurant
• WC facilities at the mountain and valley stations

Erlebnis Naturschau inatura, Dornbirn

• All exhibition areas accessible for wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities
• Three barrier-free parking spaces
• Free wheelchair rental (one wheelchair)
• WC facilities

ÖBB Bahn (Austrian Railways)

• Mobility service
• Details of features on trains by type
• 50% discount on ÖBB standard single tickets

Vmobil Bus

• Most buses are low-floor buses with fold-out ramps
• It is important to note that buses without ramps are also used in more rural regions (e.g. Bregenzerwald, Great Walser Valley)

Tour bus company

• NKG Reisen in Dornbirn: luxury coach for people with disabilities with lifting platform and hoist inside as well as spacious WC
• Travel agency Reisebüro Breuß in Rankweil

Taxi 

• Taxi Bregenzerwald: fleet with barrier-free vehicles for wheelchair users and people with walking disabilities

Barrier-free holidays in Vorarlberg

Wheelmap Vorarlberg (wheelmap.org)

Barrier-free restaurants in Vorarlberg