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Making Vancouver accessible to all

Vancouver's hosting of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games is benefitting one very deserving group of travellers: Those with disabilities.

"The Games are a catalyst for change of the very best kind," says Bruce Dewar, CEO of a Vancouver not-for-profit society called 2010 Legacies Now. "We are
using the Games as a driver to get people thinking about how to make (Vancouver) one of the most accessible places in the world."

With an estimated one in eight people worldwide living with a disability, and $13 billion being spent annually in North America by travellers with disabilities,
Vancouver has tagged the group as one of the fastest growing market opportunities in the world.

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