If you want to
improve your visitor satisfaction next year, turn to the toilets over the
winter.
Cotswold
Wildlife Park & Gardens is the latest to find an easy way to achieve it.
The UK’s largest
privately-owned wildlife collection this year complimented its existing
accessible features by opening a Changing Places assisted accessible toilet,
supplied by the expert in the facility’s provision, Closomat.
Other major
brands to see the benefit of Changing Places that Closomat has installed this
year are JD Wetherspoon, Alton Towers, Moto.
“It’s amazing
how much of a difference such facilities make to so many people! Venues
regularly report to us that visitors leave comments to the effect that a
Changing Places meant they could now visit, and others saying that now that
they know we have it, they will definitely return,” says Claire Haymes,
Closomat away from home specialist. “They also report that the Changing Places
are used frequently, every day.”
Latest figures
by Tourism for All show that 1 in 5 people in the UK is disabled. Parties that
include a disabled person spend £14billion a year on tourism and travel in the
UK, they stay longer and tend to spend more. Many of them are accompanied by at
least one carer, may need lifting/ help to transfer, or assistance with their
intimate care.
A Changing
Places toilet brings more space (3m x 4m to British Standards), than a
conventional wheelchair-accessible toilet, to accommodate the wheelchair user
and up to two carers, plus a ceiling track hoist, adult-sized height adjustable
changing bench and privacy screen. Without such a facility, potential users
report they either, or curtail their visit, or choose not to visit at all.
Under current Building Regulations (Document M), Changing Places are desirable
for inclusion in any building to which numbers of the public have access.
Closomat is
Britain’s leading provider of helpful toileting solutions, at home and away,
including Changing Places. Uniquely, the company can provide an in-house, ‘one-
stop-shop’ complete package for ‘away from home’ assisted accessible toilet
facilities, from design and commissioning, through to project management,
supply and installation. It is also unique in providing subsequent maintenance
and repair.
