DRMumbai: Enable Travel, accessible holiday specialist along with Ezy Mov, India’s first wheelchair taxi service has tied up with Red WAVE (Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle / Eco-friendly) cab services in Jamshedpur to address different travel related issues of people with disabilities and provide safe and reliable transport options to them.
“An accessible Jharkhand will serve as a gateway to East India and further our cause towards accessibility and inclusivity. We are very proud to be continuing our commitment to make travel easy and hassle-free in India and working with like-minded partners to create an inclusive and accessible travel environment” – Debolin Sen, Head, Enable Travel
Through this tie up all three travel partners will work towards making travel around Jharkhand hassle free and offer customised comfort vehicles for travellers as well as fully accessible taxis to accommodate passengers with wheelchairs and other mobility issues including the elderly. Enable Travel will also offer tourists customised sight-seeing options in and around Jharkhand.
Speaking about the partnership, Debolin Sen, Head, Enable Travel said, “An accessible Jharkhand will serve as a gateway to East India and further our cause towards accessibility and inclusivity. To ensure barrier-free travel and enhance transportation within a destination, we have partnered with Ezy Mov who are experienced to address this need along with Red WAVE Cabs for their expertise on local challenges. We are very proud to be continuing our commitment to make travel easy and hassle-free in India and working with like-minded partners to create an inclusive and accessible travel environment.”
Bennet D’cunha – CEO, Ezy Mov said, “Our mission is to position India as the leading country with regards to accessible tourism. We have successfully implemented end to end accessible assistance in Goa and aim to replicate our success in Jharkhand and other parts of the country. With our joint efforts, we want to reach out to a larger audience, address concerns of the person with disabilities and senior citizens and provide the right travel solutions to them.”
Sunil Kumar Dutta, Co-Founder Red WAVE said, “Accessibility is a right of every human and to establish it in every aspect is our duty, which starts from our hometown.”
Since its launch in March 2017, Enable Travel, powered by Cox & Kings has hosted attractive curated holiday experiences for the disabled (wheelchair, blind, deaf and speech impairment) as well as for senior citizens. The brand is today present across 220 + destinations covering domestic and international destinations. Enable Travel’s award-winning campaign #CanDo has successfully inspired many disabled and able-bodied to change their mindsets and bring about a positive impact around disability. It has been carrying out various activation across cities with ‘Travel Tales’ and ‘Enable Experiences’, events which have been organised to encourage disabled people to come out of their homes and bring alive the community that doesn’t get the chance to meet so often to converge and share their travel stories and life experiences with the world. The travel brand has been working with various travel providers, hotels, transport companies, and disabled experts to create a seamless travel experience for people with disabilities as well as for senior citizens
Ezy Mov is India’s first point to point wheelchair taxi service providing accessible transport to the elderly & the disabled in India. All its taxis are fitted with world-class equipment like hydraulic lifts and wheelchair restraint systems and are driven by a team of professional and courteous drivers. Having completed more than 100000 successful rides, we take great pride in making those with restricted mobility and confined to the four walls to move out and experience life again. Ezy Mov is proud recipients of numerous awards including the Microsoft Equal Opportunity awards organised by the Nipman Foundation & the NCPEDP Mphasis universal design award for working towards accessibility. In the coming months, Ezy Mov will stitch pan India partnerships with all transport stakeholders, the Railways, Airlines, Road & Taxi aggregators to ensure a complete & convenient end to end last mile connectivity for the elderly & the disabled of our country.
