Tourist Experiences of Individuals with Vision Impairment - 90044

Project Member(s): Small, J., Darcy, S.

Funding or Partner Organisation: CRC for Sustainable Tourism (Cooperative Research Centre In Sustainable Tourism)

Start year: 2005

Summary: This research proposal seeks to document the experience of tourists with vision impairment. The proposed geographic regions are NSW and WA due to previous relationships that the chief investigators have with the population communities. The study will be inductive in approach and encompass two phases. The first will use qualitative methods (1 focus groups and 6 in-depth interviews in each state) to collect the experience of toursist with a vision impairment. The tourist experiences will be analysed through appropriate theoretical frameworks which take account of multiple tourist voices and how this needs to be incorporated into management practices. Based on the findings of phase 1, phase 2 will be to develop industry outcomes that may include for example fact sheets. This would provide the tourism sector with ready access to information needed to provide best practice service provision.

FOR Codes: Tourism Management, Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism, Tourism management

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.