Who we are

APTAA is born by the interest of a group of people with and without incapacity, to learn to enjoy our time of leisure of a healthful, enriching, funny and variable form. Forgetting the routines and trying to go further on, because we considered that it is a form to improve our quality of life.

With the mutual support we practiced activities in our free time that, by our limitations (motóricas, economic, ignorance…), we thought that we did not have access to them.

We constituted ourselves in Association for invitarte to participate with us and that you share our time of leisure, the different sports which you can practice here, benefits of the nature, the beach and the mountain, the gastronomy… that you know Asturias.

Why we are here

The origin of this project is the necessity to offer a valid and viable alternative to the people with incapacity in its time of leisure, being improved its quality of life, developing its independence and favoring its social integration.

The call Accessible Tourism, part of the idea that all we are equal in rights and opportunities.

Some we needed different things, but that does not have to discriminate to us.

The present society has the possibility and of having to integrate to all members, and to offer services of leisure and free time for all does not imply to organize groups of people with equal or different incapacities, but to offer customized services.

The leisure spaces must be the scope of the encounter, the personal interchange and of the social action.

They must constitute frames that favor the creation of opportunities for enriched an individual and social life and complete. Nevertheless, the lack of plans and deep trade names and economic have been affecting that social function they have turned and them into tension sources, of divergence and frustration. If those circumstances are of negative consequences for the people in fullness of their capacities and senses, are of still more acute effects for those whose capacities have undergone a decrease.

From the point of view of different disciplines one affirms that we went towards a civilization of the leisure where the correct use of the free time of the man acquires a fundamental importance for its psychic and social development. For the total development of an individual it is needed to harness three variables mainly: the confidence in itself, the independence and the feeling of solidadridad in the different phases from its development.

Many are the organizations dedicated to the world of the incapacity that on a daily basis state a very significant deficiency of leisure spaces and that, by their oriented high-priority aims to the social and labor insertion, whose work is really essential, do not have infrastructure sufficient to give answer to this ncesidad, even being valued like crucial factor of well-being.

Many others share our objectives and in his activity they develop very similar aims but its geographic location restricts its field of action, normally centered in destinies that have specialized in groups with reduced mobility: spas and Mediterranean coast. And it is that, the development of activities of leisure for people with incapacity demands, among others, an exhaustive verification of the facilities that are going away to use.

In the Principality of Asturias a great fan of supplies of leisure exists and an important number of industralists who strive day to day in being in their service and their diffusion accessible is not absolutely sufficient.

APTAA tries to unify these expositions and to give to know and to enjoy a new destiny, the Principality of Asturias.