Rome (Fides Service) - In this year 2003, which the European Union has dedicated to the disabled, Italy is taking measures to adapt holiday sites to accommodate persons with a handicap. In Italy about 900,000 disabled people are regular travellers, whereas an estimated 500,000 more would like to be able to get about. Besides these, there are 2 million elderly citizens with problems of sight, hearing and mobility. This means that 3 million Italians, out of a population of 57 million cannot travel as they would like. During a recent national Conference on Tourism for the Disabled held in Bari, to mark the official opening of the European Year of the Disabled, it was said that although a European campaign Tourism for Tutti (all) was launched ten years ago, unfortunately persons with a disability are still not seen by everyone as "normal guests". However some sea side resorts have achieved progress. This holiday season, these "special guests" will find at their disposal a beach-wheelchair that enables wheelchair invalids to move easily on the sand and even in the water. Fides Service is preparing a special page on the year of the disabled soon visible at www.fides.org AP (Fides Service 3/3/2003 EM lines 17 Words: 213)