Christina is a specialist in the travel needs of disabled people and people with reduced mobility (PRMs) and has worked in this field since 1983.
She is qualified as a social worker and has experience in the health care sector both in the Netherlands and the USA. She also has a wide range of operational, coaching and administrative experience in accessible travel and tourism for disabled people, including co-ordinating assistance centres for disabled travellers in Spain, France, Italy and Greece.
She worked for over 10 years with IHD, a company providing PRM assistance to the large numbers of disabled travellers passing through Amsterdam and Brussels airports.
Drawing on her in depth practical experience Christina is an expert in developing, delivering and managing training programmes for airport and airline staff on PRM issues. She has delivered training to PRM assistance staff at Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Orly airports in Paris as well as developing tailor made training material for PassePartout Training for courses in the Middle East and all overEurope.
Christina is a native Dutch speaker and is also fluent in English and French and has a good level of spoken German.