BA (KCAE), MEnvPlan (Macq), PhD (UTS)
Associate Professor
School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Cities and organisations have responsibilities for citizens of all abilities. CCS Member Associate Professor Simon Darcy asks, how can spaces, places and experiences be framed to provide an equality of experience?
Click on the following link to read more information and view the video recording on the Quality Accessible Tourism website, Business21C. The video includes subtitles and runs for 4 minutes 17 seconds.
Accessible Tourism
Biography
Dr Simon Darcy is an Associate Professor and Research Director in the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney. Simon’s research and teaching expertise is in sport, tourism and diversity management. He currently holds research grants investigating organisational responses to accessible tourism, sports management practices and protected area visitor management systems. All Simon’s research is industry linked with the private sector, third sector or government organisations. He is actively involved in community advocacy projects and passionately believes in the rights of all people to fully participate in community life.
Why did I want to be involved with Cosmopolitan Civil Societies?
The areas in which I have chosen to dedicate my work are important areas that have received little academic attention in Australia or internationally. My work in accessible tourism and diversity management has gained national and international recognition from academic and industry practitioners. I take the knowledge arising from my academic rigour into the public policy and market arena to develop enabling management practices to create a more just society. I have held numerous board and management committee positions with government and community organisations. These involvements have been widely recognised through community, academic and university awards for disability, diversity and social justice work. Example of the body of knowledge on accessible tourism in publicly available r
I receive a great deal of satisfaction working in this area, as I strongly believe in the rights of all Australians regardless of their backgrounds to fully participate in all the rights of citizenship. I have been fortunate to be able to combine these areas at UTS within a student centred learning approach, a successful research track record and ongoing community service.
- Accessible tourism snapshot reporthttp://www.crctourism.com.au/BookShop/BookDetail.aspx?d=632
- Darcy, S., Cameron, B., Dwyer, L., Taylor, T., Wong, E., & Thomson, A. (2008), Technical Report 90040: Visitor accessibility in urban centre. Gold Coast: Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. http://www.crctourism.com.au/BookShop/BookDetail.aspx?d=626
- Packer, T., Small, J., & Darcy, S. (2008), Technical Report 90044: Tourist Experiences of Individuals with Vision Impairment, Gold Coast: Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. from http://www.crctourism.com.au/BookShop/BookDetail.aspx?d=602
- Darcy, S., Cameron, B., Pegg, S., & Packer, T. (2008), Technical Report 90042: Developing Business Cases for Accessible Tourism. Gold Coast: Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. from http://www.crctourism.com.au/BookShop/BookDetail.aspx?d=582
- Darcy, S. (2008). Working Paper No. 10: Accessible Tourism Accommodation Information Preferences. Working paper of the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism – Faculty of Business – University of Technology, Sydney, Kuring-gai campus, Lindfield NSW 2070. from http://www.business.uts.edu.au/lst/research/research_papers.html
- Darcy, S. (2006), Setting a Research Agenda for Accessible Tourism, Gold Coast: Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. http://www.crctourism.com.au/BookShop/BookDetail.aspx?d=473
- Darcy, S. (1998). Anxiety to access: tourism patterns and experiences of New South Wales people with a physical disability. Sydney: Tourism New South Wales http://corporate.tourism.nsw.gov.au/Anxiety_to_Access_p783.aspx
- Darcy, Simon 2005, Disability and Tourism Bibliography, Faculty of Business – University of Technology, Sydney http://www.business.uts.edu.au/lst/downloads/07_Disability_Tourism.pdf
- Darcy, Simon 2004, Disabling Journeys: The social relations of tourism for people with impairments in Australia – an explanation of people with impairments’ experiences through the discourses of government tourism authorities and the tourism industry, Unpublished Ph.D Thesis, Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney. http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/students/finding-information/collections/digital-theses
Cashman, R. & Darcy, S.A. 2008, Benchmark Games, Walla Walla Press, Sydney. http://www.wallawallapress.com/benchmark_paralympics.php
