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| General Principles
of Universal Design Policy |
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| III. Specific measures |
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Flexible response
to various people and activities |
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The removal of barriers from tourist regions
is promoted by preparing basic concepts suited to tourist regions
and removing barriers from hotels and other lodging facilities. |
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The creation of an environment in which
people unfamiliar with the local geography or foreigners can walk
alone is supported by encouraging the provision of guide signs designed
considering the needs of foreigners and other people unfamiliar with
the local geography, introducing information provision systems using
foreign languages at public transportation facilities, training and
ensuring guide-interpreters *16 knowledgeable
about regional tourism in Japan, supporting activities by volunteer
guides, and training tourist facility personnel. |
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The stimulation of tourism based on the
concept of universal design is comprehensively encouraged by accompanying
the creation of environments that are barrier free so people can walk
alone with support for activities of NPO that work to create tourist
regions based on the concept of universal design and for the production
of travel products usable by foreigners, elderly people and handicapped
people. |
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Guide - interpreter: A
person who is paid to travel with foreigners to provide them with
travel guidance in a foreign language. To become a guide interpreter,
a person must, in accordance with the provisions of the Guide Interpreting
Business Law (will change to the Guide-Interpreter Law in April 2007)
pass a national test and receive a license from the prefectural governor
(registration after the enforcement of the revised law). Beginning
in April 2007, a new qualification will be established; that of Regional
Guide-Interpreter who will be able to perform this work only in a
prefecture, under the provisions of the Law for the Stimulation of
International Tourism by Encouraging the Improvement of Regions Visited
by Foreign Tourists. |
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