Tourism for All NZ Research Group

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Professor Alison McIntosh, Dr Brielle Gillovic, AUT Adjunct Professor Simon Darcy (University of Technology Sydney) and AUT Visiting Scholar, Dr Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten (University of Waikato) coordinate the Tourism for All NZ Research Group.

Initially funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development Think Differently Fund, NZ Tourism For All is a project to champion accessible tourism in New Zealand. The investigation recognises the citizenship rights of people with disabilities and those living with chronic or terminal illness to tourism as an inclusive leisure activity. Current projects include accessible beach tourism; accessible hotel restaurants; tourism and carers; disability employment and entrepreneurship; terminal illness and travel; and disability, tourism and sustainability.

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    "WITH": Beach Access: A ‘Right’ of Passage for All Kiwis?
    (Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2022-06-28) McIntosh, Alison; Gillovic, Brielle; Hayden, Sophie
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    Enabling a 'Good Life' Through Leisure Travel for People with Intellectual Disabilities
    (Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 2020-02-11) Gillovic, Brielle; Darcy, Simon; Cockburn-Wootten, Cheryl; McIntosh, Alison
    This working paper explores the ways in which people with intellectual disabilities ascribe meaning to their leisure travel experiences, as well as the significance of them. An interpretive phenomenological approach was applied in this exploratory qualitative study, which draws upon in-depth interviews with nine people with intellectual disabilities. Thematic analysis defined the leisure travel experience as both significant and meaningful, one that is largely sought in the pursuit of, and with potential to contribute toward, enabling a ‘good life’. As such, the leisure travel experience is one of dignity and wellbeing, provides a sense of living and learning, and can strengthen relational connections with carers. At a conceptual level, this paper positions itself as contributing preliminary insights into the leisure travel experience, by way of sharing the authentic voices and embodied experiences of people with intellectual disabilities. This lens of intellectual disability addresses a scarcity of representation in the existing scholarship, augmenting and advancing current understandings of the accessible tourist experience for this group of travellers with disabilities.
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    An Investigation into the Socially Constructed and Embodied Experiences of Senior Tourists with Disabilities and Their Travel Companions in Bali
    (Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 2020) McIntosh, Alison; Cockburn-Wootten, Cheryl; Indrawati, Yayu
    This paper highlights the socially constructed and embodied experiences of senior tourists with disabilities holidaying in Bali. Drawing upon qualitative inquiry, an inductive approach was applied, and critically examine senior tourists bodily experiences influenced by societal and environmental situations. The data was collected using in-depth semi-structured interviews with seven senior tourists with disabilities and six identified travel companions. The senior tourists’ embodiment, as part of their identity, intertwined in the tourism activities result in two findings; freedom and connections. For senior tourists with disabilities, being in the holiday environment means to focus on the self and having some time alone is a crucial moment and considered as ‘me’ time. While other people actions in the destination causing barriers, which affected the freedom to navigate in the destination. Lastly, the presence of others established social engagement in the form of friendships and affections provides benefits for senior tourists and avoid exclusion from the social world.
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    “WITH”: Refugee-Background Research Practices in Tourism
    (Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2022-06-27) McIntosh, Alison; Afshan, Shima B.; Cockburn-Wootten, Cheyl
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    Accessible and Inclusive Tourism Experiences Through Strategic Destination Planning and Development
    (School of Hospitality and Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 2023-11-29) Hayden, Sophie; McIntosh, Alison; Gillovic, Brielle
    Tourism can provide transformational experiences, in positive and/or negative ways, for any tourist. It can provide new experiences that can be (deeply) affective as tourists encounter new places, people, cultures, and activities that they may have never encountered before. For tourists with disability, transformational experiences can be even more significant, again in positive and/or negative ways.
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