Tourism experiences of people with a spinal cord injury: a photovoice study of the Gold Coast region

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Greenwood, Jorja
Gustafsson, Louise
McShane, Matthew
Mackereth, Colin
Greenfield, Nate
Fernandes, Joel
Walder, Kim
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2025
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Partnering with people with spinal cord injury through participatory research is important to fully understand their tourism experiences and what is required to achieve accessible tourism. The aim of this photovoice study was to explore the tourism experiences of people with a spinal cord injury on the Gold Coast. Four co-researchers engaged in personalised three-day tourism itineraries, collected photographs representing their experiences, and shared their insights through individual interviews and a focus group discussion. Two broad themes were identified: tourism should be an inclusive experience, and accessibility is important for inclusion. The findings highlight that a focus on accessibility may not achieve the desired outcome if the experience and inclusion aspects are ignored. These findings are not explicitly explored in the disability tourism literature, demonstrating the need for additional research in this field.

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Disability & Society

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© 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.

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Specialist studies in education

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Greenwood, J; Gustafsson, L; McShane, M; Mackereth, C; Greenfield, N; Fernandes, J; Walder, K, Tourism experiences of people with a spinal cord injury: a photovoice study of the Gold Coast region, Disability & Society, 2025

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