Cockburn-Wootten, CherylIndrawati, YayuMcIntosh, Alison2025-08-262025-08-262025-08-11Tourism Geographies, 1-7. ISSN: 1461-6688 (Print); 1470-1340 (Online), Taylor and Francis Group. doi: 10.1080/14616688.2025.25465401461-66881470-1340http://hdl.handle.net/10292/19722Bali has become a well-known island destination in Indonesia for senior tourists and Bali’s tourism strategy has indicated a desire to attract senior visitors. This study adopted an interpretative approach to examine how relational place making processes shape the embodied experiences of tourists who are ageing with disability within the destination of Bali. Joint interviews were conducted with six tourists ageing with disability and their travel companion, and 10 tourism providers. Our findings contribute insights into the relational lived world of ageing with disability and tourism for a destination that seeks to encourage this market. Focusing on ageing with disability, this paper contributes to challenging understandings of ageing and disability, with lived meanings within a tourism place evidenced as negotiable, often contested, and socially connected. Two key themes were found in our study relating to a sense of familiarity through the passage of time, and a sense of freedom to be relating to what it means to ‘be’ in tourist places, or, how tourists who are ageing with disability ‘are’ in the place. These findings contribute insights into the relational embodied perspectives of ageing with disability that could help facilitate agency, participation and inclusive relations with others within place making.© 2025 The author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the accepted manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.1506 Tourism1604 Human GeographySport, Leisure & Tourism3508 Tourism4406 Human geographyDisabilityplace makingembodimentageingphotosjoint interviewstravel companionBaliJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1080/14616688.2025.2546540