translated from Spanish: The first smart wheelchair incorporates innovative accessibility assistance system

Ooredoo, a telephone and digital company in the Middle East, launched in conjunction with Wheel the World, a tourism inclusion venture, the first electric wheelchair with system included “Accesibility Assistant”, which will help people with physical disabilities enjoy the same as any of Qatar’s attractions.
The chair will be available from December 3rd, International Disability Day and will present its characteristics that make it unique and ideal to adapt to physical disabilities such as paraplegia, tetraplegia, sclerosis, etc. and that can be used more than 15. attractions, 14 hotels and 2 transport systems.
This initiative was created as part of Qatar’s tourism and sporting growth by being named hosts of the FIFA 2022 World Cup, hoping to welcome millions of fans from all over the world. In addition, they have confirmed to host events such as the Doha World Athletics Championships, held in September, FIFA Club Championship during this month and the Qatar Marathon in January, among other dates; incentive to go and see the attractions and need tour operators, accommodations and transport.
Wheel the World is a consulting firm that enables tourist attractions in the world so that people with disabilities, their family and friends can explore it without limits. The company that started in December 2016, to date already has more than 22 destinations across the globe.
That’s why Ooredoo invited him to work in Qatar, reviewing the status of attractions and how to improve for people with physical disabilities to come and replicate in the same way as any. For more than 10 days they were visiting, collecting information, making adjustments, training tourism professionals and acquiring and incorporating infrastructure so that from December 3, this first electric wheelchair with Accesibility Assistance is ready to be used for the first time in the world.
You will have the following functions: answer user questions and receive behavioral commands so you can go one or the other place. The result is an innovative, state-of-the-art mechanism that will accompany and take people with disabilities to whatever they want to explore.
In parallel, this same system will be available on a website which was created based on the care and connection that people with disabilities need when evaluating a trip, helping to define and
plan, answer questions needed to coordinate the trip, among others.

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