This is a Service of camosdigitalnomadservices.com and is presently a private initiative although in this case it is not "blue sky" but is based on this GTP Article, and it will be immediately obvious that there is a close link between the work I have been doing in Greece (essentially as a hobby) and this Accessible Beaches venture.

The article talks to the venture being "digitally promoted" so I will "put my hat in the ring" with my own suggestion for how that might be fashioned (and see also below). Of course the use of your logo etc would be subject to agreement.

To initially keep the exercise manageable I am proposing to confine it to the Greek Islands (not the Mainland) and the Google MyMap supplied in the Article suggests that involves 59 Accessible Beaches. Therefore once you OPEN the Web-App (here or above/below) Frame 1 shows the 7 Island Groups but initially frozen on the Cyclades which becomes the default in Frame 2 below.

In turn Frame 2 is frozen on Syros for the purpose of this Example, so Syros becomes the default in Frame 3 (below again).

The article goes on to talk of "Destinations" (aka Staycations) and in my Example that is Syros (as a whole, with the main town of Ermoupoli) which the Google MyMap indicates as having 3 Accessible Beaches, of which I have selected Kini in my Example. That is to say, at this time, only the Kini tag in Frame 3 takes you to a stand alone Feature Web-App for a particular Accessible Beach.

So Frame 3 (Destination Frame) firstly has "Entry Point Tabs" to take you to Google Street View 360 degree PANORAMAS (not just plain vanilla "flat" photos) at strategic points around the Island that allow you to take Virtual Tours (with direct access in Google Maps) and "get to know" a bit about Syros.

Then there is a Ferry Helper to allow you to plan and book your Ferry trip to and from the Island. For Islands with an airport a similar Helper can be be provided.

Then there is the contentious issue of a Bus Helper. I say contentious as it would be misleading to suggest that a person confined to a wheelchair could use the local bus service to go to an Accessible Beach. The bus services on the Greek Islands are not as yet set up to cater for such accessibility. However the Article refers to "people with disabilities or limited mobility" and as I personanally suffer from slightly limited mobility I was able to assess such issues on 7 different Islands during my recent 2022 digital nomad ventures.

My verdict is that the bus services on all these Islands (particularly Naxos) were lagging behind all the other aspects of tourism upgrading (not to mention the needs of the locals), and not just in the area of accessible travel. But based on "clouds with a silver lining" that prompted me to develop some "digital enhancements" as a digital nomad exercise and the Web-App for the Syros Bus Service is included via the tag "Bus Helper" which, as explained below, has been upgraded to "Bus/Car Helper".

The most obvious initial digital upgrade for the Bus Service would be to formulate the "Transit Information" into Google Maps to at least let tourists know when a bus SHOULD be scheduled and of course alert them (in real time) if a service is cancelled/delayed (as happened 3 times to me on Naxos causing considerable inconvenience). This to me is a most obvious task for digital nomads but while Naxos boasts of a digital nomad community it is not motivated to such tasks.

However the Article above refers to such matters as "accessible parking areas", so putting the accessible bus issue to one side for the present, that took me to the realisation that my Bus Helper already included a fully functional "send to your phone" SatNav feature to follow the bus routes in a car. So I have simply changed the tag to "Bus/Car Helper", leaving the choice to reflect the particular circumstances of the person and hoping that the Transit Information can be included in the near future (possibly as part of this Accessible Beach Project).

By selecting the Kini Tab in Frame 3 you are taken to the Web-App for Kini which provides a "Multi-Media Overview" of the area. The main features derived from Google Maps are "DIY Trekker" Street View Panoramas and SatNav walks (or wheelchair rides) along the Beach areas. Then a FlyOver video is created in Google Earth to give a bird's eye view of the area.

If you go to Google Maps you will see that the Google Street View Car last visited in October 2014 (the blue lines below)

and of course only on the road and not the beach, giving a rather dismal portrayal of Kini.

So the DIY Trekker photographers can greatly enhance the perception by "walking" beaches under "Sea and Sun" conditions as seen from Entry Point Panos P1 to P4 on the Web-App (by Jacques Lauber in September 2020). His good work saved me needing to do a similar task for Kini in May 2022 so I was freed up to experiment with my new "toy" of a 360 pano drone, which you can see for Entry Points D1 and D2 in the same Web-App (and the blue dot highlighted above).

Neither visit to Kini was at a time when a "Seatrack" was installed so I have shown a "virtual one" in green (next to the Mermaid) but such is the great number of panos taken by Jacques Lauber that we find one on the South side of Syros as Pano #6 in Frame 3 (appears as the default in Frame 4), and an edit is also taken from the pano for the title image at the top of this page.

And once we have an actual Seatrack I am thinking that the perspective in D2 from the drone would be the ideal way to feature the aparatus, along with a ground level pano from the mid point of the track into the water.

Just 5 days later in the Greek Tourist Pages Newsletter we had this GTP Article and I can confirm that I was one of the 340,000 Australians who visited Greece in 2019 and it seems the only one to have added DIY Trekker Virtual Tours to Greek Beaches (eg on Logaras Beach Paros). Only Jacques Lauber (from Switzerland) has added (considerably) more.

The Accessible Beach Article concludes with the statement

"Furthermore Greece’s accessible beach destinations will be digitally promoted to a targeted audience (PWDs and their caregivers) in Greece, as well as at the country’s most popular European tourism markets (Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Cyprus)."

It may not be obvious to those not located on the Mediterranean Sea that most of the world including Australia has beaches subject to considerable daily tidal variation making it impossible to provide a Seatrack type facility, OR for that matter the vital provision of the thousands of waterside restaurants that make Greece such an attractive tourist destination.

So in turn I will conclude by suggesting that, even if just for the Australian tourist market for Greece, this Web-App I am proposing makes a huge amount of commercial sense. However all "hobby funds" have now dried up and the exercise would need to be funded to the extent of covering the travel expenses. It is hoped that Jacques Lauber might be available to assist in the exercise and I will contact him if there is interest from those concerned.