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Nov. 27, 2024 at 3:53 p.m.
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With 200,000 entries per year, ski resorts represent the 3rd tourist site in the Drôme. Currently, the Department manages six stations mountain: the Rousset pass, Font d'Urle, Herbouilly, The Grand Echaillon, the Raphaël-Poirée biathlon stadium et Lus-la-Jarjatte.
The Drôme resorts and the Departmental Adapted Sports Committee (CDSA) formalized, on Monday November 25, a partnership aimed at developing the reception of people with mental or psychological disabilities or those with autism disorders within Drôme resorts.
Promote physical activity
With this agreement, the public industrial and commercial establishment of the resorts undertakes to apply the school rate to holders of a license from the Adapted Sports Federation for alpine skiing and Nordic skiing. Accompanying persons will be able to benefit from the group rate.
For snowshoe activities, the Department will apply free admission for the person with a disability and the accompanying person. The school rate will also be applied for “non-snow” activities (rail tobogganing, tubing, kids’ adventure park), in the event of privatization by a group. In return, the CDSA will introduce its licensees and guides to the Drôme resorts.
€100 million to support people with disabilities
The Department devotes approximately €100 million each year to supporting people with disabilities, including funding for accommodation structures, the Disability Compensatory Benefit and even school transport for students with disabilities. The community is committed beyond its mandatory skills with support for associations in the world of disability, including those promoting the practice of sport. It is in this context that the vice-president of the Departmental Council in charge of human solidarity, Françoise Chazal, the departmental advisor delegated to the stations, Christian Morin, and the president of the departmental adapted sports committee (CDSA), Dominique Luquet, signed this agreement on Monday, November 25.
Investments in stations
As part of its station development plan, the Department has made several investments to promote access for people with disabilities.
The Col de Rousset chairlift and the rail toboggan are approved to accommodate disabled people. An all-terrain chair and a schooner are available to customers. A path accessible to people with reduced mobility has also been created at the top of the Col de Rousset station.
This arrangement allows people with disabilities to access the panoramic area of the site. The Drôme resorts are also engaged in a Tourism and Disability labeling process. A pre-audit was carried out in 2024 with a view to obtaining the label in 2025.
An all-terrain wheelchair challenge in Lus-la-Jarjatte
In terms of sport, the Department organizes the All-Terrain Wheelchair Challenge every year, in partnership with the Drôme Disabled Sports Committee. Organized in recent years at the Valdrôme resort, the event will take place in 2024 in Lus-la-Jarjatte. This event allows people with reduced mobility to descend in wheelchairs.
In 2024, the Department supported the Drôme ski committee for its project to provide access to skiing for people with mental disabilities. Particular attention is also paid to the participation of young people attending medical-educational institutes in the annual outdoor sports day for middle school students, in partnership with the CDSA.
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