Including;

• People with a mental, sensory and/or mobility disabilities
• People with a temporary injury, chronic illness or allergies
• People aged over 65 years
• People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• The LGBTIQ community
• Families with young children
• People who speak English as a second language
• AND their travel companions

To deliver an inclusive experience, requires a collective effort of good customer service, a physically accessible environment and access to information.  

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Travel Experience

Young, ambitious and using a wheelchair, we spent 3 months travelling through Europe, the trip of a lifetime on a shoestring budget! Utilising the public train network and backpacking as much as possible, we encountered just about every physical and attitudinal barrier a wheelchair user could imagine. However optimism, resilience and a sense of humour kept us going and we shared in some of the most amazing experiences of our lives. Shortly after returning home we came to the realisation that these hurdles exist right here in South Australia and we now have the determination, means and ability to make a positive impact on the SA tourism industry.

We aren’t expecting all facilities to be 100% inclusive for everyone, but we want to help you to identify and promote how your business already caters for a range of people, providing an inclusive tourism experience. Inclusive tourism is a significant industry sector and by taking steps to be more inclusive you’ll appeal to a wider range of tourists. We can help you to understand how attitudinal behaviours have an impact. How providing detailed visitor information on your website and throughout your marketing materials can attract a wider audience. And how considering small changes to design and facilities can assist in an inclusive experience for travellers of varying abilities.

Why make it inclusive?

A travel decision is critically based on knowing what to expect of an activity or on arrival at a destination. Inclusive Tourism assists travellers in reducing uncertainty around what to expect. Through provision of information it creates choice and instils confidence to people enabling them to sign up for new experiences. It has a huge impact of reducing travel planning time and a potentially greater impact on attracting a significant portion of the travelling population to your facility.

Inclusive tourism incorporates Universal Design or Inclusive Design, a framework for the design of places, things, information, communication and policy to be usable by the widest range of people operating in the widest range of situations without special or separate design. Most simply, Universal Design is human-centered design of everything with everyone in mind, anticipating the reality of diversity in our bodies and our brains and builds in solutions. Push Adventures is able to provide the motivation and tools to the tourism industry to allow business’ to create accessible environments that enable inclusion.

“American adults with disabilities or reduced mobility currently spend an average of $13. 6 billion a year on travel. Creating accessible cruise ships, accessible ship terminals, accessible ground transportation, and accessible tourist destinations is not charity. It is just good business.” Dr Scott Rains, US expert on disability issues.