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.

Further related resources:

Tourism Evidence and Insights Centre
Gillovic, B. (2019). Experiences of Care at the Nexus of Intellectual Disability and Leisure Travel [Unpublished PhD thesis]. The University of Waikato.
Gillovic, B., McIntosh, A., Darcy, S., Cockburn-Wootten, C. (2018). Enabling the Language of Accessible Tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol. 26 (4), pp. 615-630.

News

Sophie Morgan in Aotearoa

The Tourism for All NZ Research Group was honoured to welcome Sophie Morgan to AUT on the 29th of November 2024. Many VIPs were in attendance to hear Sophie's personal stories of her accessible tourism journey, and to be inspired by her hope and victories large and small.

Read a report on Sophie's visit here

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Asterisk, No Asterisk: They Same
(Aotearoa Diamond Journals Collective, 2020) Buehler, Walker
Frimpong curls an early low pass towards Boniface near the penalty spot. Kelleher is in no man’s land but Alexander-Arnold forces him away from goal and Boniface shoots wide from an impossible angle. Boniface then slides off the field and into one of the advertising boards. He’s still down and receiving treatment as the game continues. Wirtz, just outside the area, flickes a superb little pass through to Frimpong. He gets the wrong side of Van Dijk, then goes over just as he’s about to shoot. The referee waves him up and VAR isn’t interested. I’d like to see that again. “Is your other reader Are any of your other readers finding that the Amazon TV App is crashing every few minutes?” wonders Phil Sawyer. “I mean, in some ways the feed is performing the duty of the Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses and protecting me from watching anything alarming. At the same time, it would be nice to at least experience the anxiety first hand and actually watch the match.”
Enough Items on Dev to Give Us a Couple of Images to Theme Against
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022) Cube, Ice; Tea, Ice
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(Auckland University of Technology, 2024) Mahli, Rudy bin
The Future of Tourism: Interview With Professor Heike Schänzel About Her Role As Associate Editor of the Journal of Tourism Futures
(Emerald, 2024-08-09) Yeoman, Ian Seymour; Schänzel, Heike A
Purpose As the Journal of Tourism Futures celebrates its 10th anniversary, Dr Ian Yeoman (Hotel Management School Leeuwarden) interviews Professor Heike Schänzel (Auckland University of Technology) about her role as the Associate Editor of the journal. Design/methodology/approach Personal interview. Findings Schänzel provides a guide to the role of the Associate Professors and discusses her own research. Originality/value The interview provides insights about the role of Associate Editors in managing the future of tourism and the critical directions of family tourism, lesbian, children’s voices and social justice research.
When Words Become Difficult: A Critical Reflection of the ‘MeBox’ Method in Understanding Senior Travellers’ Responses to Loss
(Edward Edgar Publishing, 2021-05) Ramanayake, U; Cockburn-Wootten, C; McIntosh, A
Multiple dimensions of our experiences such as visual, embodied and sensory experiences cannot always be easily expressed in words. Traditional qualitative methods may struggle to access these deep-rooted complex and emotional aspects. Tourism scholars have called for innovative methodologies to unravel layers of diverse meaning in phenomena. This article critically reflects on a visual tool called the ‘MeBox’. It was adopted in our study to explore senior travellers’ responses to loss following a major life event. The ‘MeBox’ method enabled participants to express embedded and tacit knowledge to reflect on their lived experiences. We critically review the ‘MeBox’ methodology, and provide practical learnings for scholars who may want to adopt this method as a means to under-stand lived experiences that are difficult to express in words.

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