Sometimes, the weather and particularly the temperature in the UK, where I’m based, reminds me of the inexplicable fact that millions of us who live in such parts of the world have chosen to live on a world latitude that is, for a large part of the year, technically too cold to support human […]
Well, Summer’s here, for all of those in the northern hemisphere anyway. I’m working on the confident assumption that our readers in the Southern Hemisphere are fortunate enough to have other climatic compensations for the reality of winter! For me, its certainly time to reflect on all that has transpired, travel-wise, so far in 2008. […]
Traveleyes is a travel company with a difference. This dynamic specialist air tour operator provides holidays for both blind/visually impaired and sighted travellers, who journey together to world holiday destinations in a spirit of mutual independence.
The Founder and Director of Traveleyes is the blind traveller and world award winning entrepreneur and film director, Amar Latif. […]
Hi All!
I’ve just got back from leading a Traveleyes holiday group to Fuerteventura, the Canary island that lies the closest of all the Canaries group to Africa. As well as turning out to be an enjoyable time for all, it actually proved an even more action-packed eight days than is usually the case with Traveleyes! […]
I hope you all had a great Christmas break and I’d like to wish you all a very happy and fulfilling New Year for 2008.
In saying the first bit I’m falling into the common trap of assuming that everybody, whatever their religion, culture or profession, is actually able to enjoy a Christmas or a New […]
Hi. My name is Amar Latif.
I’m 33 years old, I’m Scottish, I’m blind, I’m an entrepreneur, a world traveller, an actor, I direct films, I love to play the guitar, and I’m the founder and director of the international air tour operator: Traveleyes.
I recently had the great honour of being made the winner of the […]
A Traveleyes group has just returned from a Tuscan Treasures holiday. Everyone had a wonderful time exploring medieval towns in the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside, taking in the local culture whilst relaxing in Italian cafes, learning how to cook traditional Tuscan delights such as Pici pasta and Cantucci biscuits, and of course, tasting […]
Amar Latif won the first ever Stelios Disabled Entrepreneur Award, run by charity Leonard Cheshire Disability, at a prestigious ceremony in London last night.
Amar set out to be ‘the blind guy who wanted to show people the world’. He set up Traveleyes as the first commercial tour operator to specialise in holidays for visually impaired […]
