What is the Social Tourism?

We are immersed in a situation characterized by the increasing concentration of the wealth by a side and the marginalization by the other, which brings as a consequence, the increase in the poverty index.

As well, in this context other phenomena can arise like for example, the familiar and social or urban violence, the youthful and infantile delinquency, the addictions to drugs or the alcohol as escape from nonwished previous situations, etc. These factors generate the exclusion social, characterized by the shortage of resources and the loss of the sense of property to the community and its values.

According to the data offered by the International Organizations, on the total population of people with different capacities and reduced mobility in the world, added to the amount of people with a significant level of poverty, the 27 of September of 1980, the World-wide Organization of Turism (OMT), recognizes the term of "social tourism". This declaration recognizes the tourism like a fundamental right and key vehicle for the human development.

Social Tourism
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Since it is clear in the previous section, for years the national and international institutions have come actively working in favor of the promotion for better conditions of life for people with different capacities and low resources. Among other objectives, not less important, the access to tourist infrastructures and services to people with different capacities and reduced mobility (PMR).

This work has been shaped in numerous norms, documents and studies, product of days and congresses, which has contributed to establish an important platform from which we have begun to work towards the objective of the "Tourism for All".

The Social Tourism has been conceived from its beginnings like that which guarantees the use and enjoyment of tourism by people who suffer some physical, psychic or sensorial incapacity.

Nevertheless, the social tourism parts of an ampler conception of its potential beneficiaries when intending the fight against the inequalities and exclusion of all those that have a different culture, have less economic means or live in less favored regions. Really, the conjunction of these two concepts, accessible tourism and social tourism, makes it possible for a true tourism for all.

For all of this, the Maria Virgen Madre Foundation is working together with the Licentiate Tony Pero in order to develop the social tourism