About The Good Scout Company

Discuss about the Research Report On Good Scout Company.

The Good Scout Company was established in the year 2017 to assist people in planning their next accessible adventure. The company was founded by Scott Crowley, who is a wheelchair user and want to provide options for the wheelchair travelers to promote the options of accessible travel to the wheelchair travelers. It is a platform which assists the wheelchair users to access the adventure with the best experience and best options with no exceptions. The primary aim of writing this report is to identify how attainable would be the events to the people with disability held in Adelaide parklands. This report analyzes the issues of accessibility tourism in South Australia. The various parks are studied in this report like Adelaide Riverbank, Bonython Park, Adelaide Botanic Garden, Rymill Park, Adelaide Oval, Ukaria Culture Center, etc. to assess how the parkland manages the people, with wheelchair and disability held in Adelaide parklands. This report also includes the obstacles of events in the Parkland in terms of accessibility tourism and what sorts of amenities are provided to the people with disability. This report also focuses on the identification of valid parking provided to the people with disability and if there are any volunteer or employees who assist them around the events (City of Adelaide, 2016). This report also includes the comparison of events in Sydney and South Australia, while considering numerous Park like Centennial Parklands, Moore Park, Sydney Park, and Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

The aim of writing this report is to comprehend the prominence of accessibility tourism and the assistance provided by parklands to the people with disability, especially with wheelchairs.

This part of the research report is evaluated by developing and aim to answer the research questions based on primary and secondary. The primary question that this research report is specifically intended to answer is:

• How attainable would be the events to the people with disability held in Adelaide parklands?

The secondary questions that this report is specifically intended to answer are:

• What sorts of amenities are provided to the people with disability in the Parkland events?
• What are the obstacles of Parkland events in attainable tourism?
• Do the Adelaide parklands provide suitable and valid parking for the people with disability, especially with wheelchairs?
• Are the people with disability are provided with enough assistance by the volunteers or the employees around the event?

The purpose of carrying out this research is to comprehend the services provided by the Good Scout Company and the push adventures and evaluate the requirement to raise the awareness of the people about the companies which are providing enough services to the people with disability, especially with wheelchairs. The mission of the Good Scout Company and the Push Adventures is to provide best travel facilities which are attainable to them and what kind of experience they use to get across Australia. These companies help them to search for all the information and provide enough inspiration to the people with disability, especially with wheelchairs, in order to make them confident about the best adventure in one place. The Good Scout company has opened up space for all the possibilities for the travelers with disabilities and offer resources and travel tips for the people to assist them with more options as well as and travel choices. These websites also make sure that the facility of service best matches the requirements of the individual and cater the higher needs like hoists, Australian standard bathrooms, lifts, etc.

Scope of the Report

The scope of this research is to comprehend the policies of the Adelaide parklands events and the guidelines along with the criteria of the event site, which may create the obstacles to the people with disability in accessing the tourism. The parklands of Adelaide provides with open spaces for diverse events and are well contributing the state in different ways. There are also many strong creative culture events, which are improving the outcomes of health and wellbeing, state and local wide economic, employment, social engagement, and education (City of Adelaide, 2016). The focus of Adelaide Parkland event management plan is on managing the events in the Adelaide and the aim of Adelaide Parkland event management plan is to provide all the necessary information to the community to adhere and comprehend to the framework of management around holding the events in the Parklands. Thus, the scope of this research report is to focus on the how attainable would be the events to the people with disability held in Adelaide parklands, specific to the South Australia locations and what sorts of amenities are provided to the people with disability, especially with wheelchairs in the Parkland events.

The qualitative research method is used in this report as it perfectly match the purpose of the report by providing the comprehension of opinions, reasons, and motivations while providing the insight into the problem, which helps in developing the hypothesis. The data collection methods in this research report used semi structured and unstructured techniques and are subjective, which seek to understand the behavior of the human and the reason behind governing such behavior.

This report is limited to the study of Accessibility Tourism only in the regions of the Adelaide and Sydney for the comparison. This report is also limited to the push adventures based on the GoodScoutCompany and people with disability, especially with wheelchairs, neglecting all the other impairments.

Accessible tourism is the preceding and occurring endeavor to make sure that service, products, and tourist destinations are available to all the individuals, regardless of their physical disabilities, age, or limitations. It incorporates the private and public owned tourist destinations. Accessible tourism is required by the people, including the seniors with mobility requirements, children in Prams and the individuals with temporary or permanent disability. The access requirements include hearing, physical mobility, vision, and cognitive (Tourism Australia, 2018).

There are numerous advantages of accessible tourism. It has been studied that there are over 1 million people worldwide with disabilities, including 11 million people in the UK and 54 million people in the USA. To support and raise awareness, the accessible tourism toolkit has been developed by the department of human services to become inclusive and more accessible. This kit provides best practices from relevant resources. There are numerous legislation and policies which are prominent to meet with the parkland events, which are outlined as national disability strategy accessible tourism plan, and Commonwealth discrimination act.

Research Questions

To provide the access to the Park Lands, the Adelaide Park Lands maximize public access by creating an event calendar that allows the people, especially with disabilities by making sure that all the public toilets and basic amenities remain un-fenced. The council also minimizes the fencing to maintain access to the site, cycle paths and pedestrians to the maximum extent. Council also makes sure that the parking is available for the people, especially the people with disabilities (on wheelchairs). The council also minimizes the disruption in the Park Lands where possible and fosters the opportunities for cooperative business. They also ensure that there are the ways to prevent the negative impact of the event on the people with disabilities.

The site features of Adelaide riverbank consist of ample shades and no toilet. Thus, it may create a difficulty for the people with disability especially with wheelchairs. However, there is ample lightning along the river Torrent. The parking accessibility to the people is available through war Memorial drive, but there is a limited vehicle access. The people can access to the Parkland by a transportation system from the tram stop and Adelaide railway station via river bank pedestrian Bridge.

The Bonython Park has limited lighting and contains only the playground amenities. The toilets in the Bonython Park are Exeloo, which are not suitable for larger events. The access to the park is through the Thebarton tram stops, which are located on port Road. Also, one toilet block is not suitable for major event and the lighting is only available along the bicycle path which may create problem to the people with disabilities. There is not accessible parking in the park, which can be made available within the site.

The botanic park is also known as Kaurna which is located in the South Australia. The park is used in public debate and is better known for wedding party photographs, picnics and major events such as moonlight cinema and WOMADelaide. An accessible drop-off zone and parking is located next to the Hackney Road entrance and is also reserved outside the Frome Road entrance, between the drop-off zone and Zoo of Frome Road. Accessible toilets are located alongside the Plane Tree Drive, and facilities are installed where possible along the sealed surface cycle way with clear marking and privacy screening to encourage use only by the people who require accessible facilities. The other event is the OzAsia Festival is an arts festival in Adelaide Festival Centre in South Australia, which is also accessible to the people with disabilities, especially for wheelchairs.

Advantages of Accessible Tourism

The Rymill Park is also known as Mullawirraburka and Park 14, is in Adelaide with close proximity to Adelaide Botanic Garden, Victoria Garden, V Park and Huff Street. The Rymill park has been cited for various different sporting and cultural events including Aerobic Challenge, Feast festivals, Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Festival Carnevale in Adelaide, Adelaide International Horse Trials, the Adelaide International Horse Trials, etc.

The Elder Park hosts the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Symphony under the Stars, and the  Christmas Carols by Candlelight for Adelaide. The accessibility to the Elder Park is through the Adelaide Railway Station, which can be reached via tram or train. The Elder Park does not provide the internal parking and during the events, people need to look for a UPark Topham hall and UPark Gowler Pace to search for the closest parking area.The toilets on the site are also temporary, which is not suitable for the people with disabilities, especially for wheelchair users (Corporation, 2018).

In the Adelaide Oval, there are 275 places for wheelchair users. The Adelaide or Port Adelaide football clubs  and The South Australian Cricket Association organizes the events in the Adelaide Oval. All the main entries to the stadium are accessible for wheelchair users. Ramps and lifts are used extensively throughout the Adelaide Oval to provide safe access for wheelchair users. To visit the Adelaide Oval, people can take metro transport. There are 41 unisex accessible toilets which are suitable for wheelchair users. It has been contrasted in the article on the media release in the Adelaide Oval that there were always the obstacles with the Adelaide Oval re-launch due to the accessible parking which was never addressed in the redevelopment plans. The concerns of lighting, mobility aid were addressed as per the safety issue in Pinky flat (Vincent, 2015).

The Ukaria Culture Center is situated in the Adelaide Hills at Mount Barker, in which 2 disabled car parks are available for the people with disabilities, especially for wheelchairs. But, it is impossible to go there by public transports. People need to opt for car pooling to attend the events in the Ukaria Culture Center (UKARIA, 2018).

From the Seacliff Beach, an accessible ramp is available which leads down to the beach allowing access from the ramp through Beach Wheelchair. There are also accessible bathrooms and car parking.

The Push Adventures also offers the ‘inclusive tourism’, which helps in opening of the world by creating more opportunities for participating and enjoying in tourism activities, while reducing uncertainty. Push Adventures works with easy solutions and implement cost-effective solutions and provide opportunities to work with people with disabilities, especially, people in wheelchairs (Push Adventures, 2016)

Policies of Adelaide Parklands Events

The push adventures also provide the view for miles from Granite Island, but for the wheelchair people, there is a path cutting back across the back and top down to the causeway and is a bit too long, too steep, which makes difficult and unsafe for the wheelchair user. There are toilet facilities on the island, but it is recommended for the people with disabilities to cover of the miles with few perspectives (Font & McCabe, 2017).

As per the disability standards for accessible public transport, the responsibilities and rights for providers, operators, and passengers, are highlighted, which help in improving the accessibility and safety for the people with disabilities. The Adelaide Metro provides a safer travel for the passengers with disability, especially who are using wheelchairs on public transport. They provide with the information on safety requirements and having the right wheelchair, which is capable of accelerating, tolerating, cornering, and pitching, the motion involved in travel. The Adelaide Metro also provides the information on the Maneuverability and suggests the taxi passengers to negotiate door height of 1500 mm and other information related to mobility aids and sealed batteries (Adelaide Metro, 2018).

Adelaide aquatic center and Port Lincoln leisure center provide the immersion therapy service which has been specifically developed for people with disability or injury that uses Scuba equipment. It is a pool based therapy, which offers freedom of movement within well organized benefits and weightless environment of bio psychosocial models. The control environment has provided the offer to the people to get the freedom of movement and weightlessness to stimulate the movement of muscles against the resistance of water. The unique therapy is recognized for benefits of bio psychosocial model that helps the people with disability. The determined2 provides the staff to work with the person with disability by offering per person centered approach, which is delivered at the pace of the individual (Scout, 2018).

The Adelaide aquatic Centre also provides car parking on site and with leisure based facility. There are also acceptable change rooms. The Adelaide aquatic Centre also provides wet area, wheelchair access to the people with disability. They have the access to the main pool through the lifts as well as ramps to help the people with pool exit and entry and provided with assisted support facilities. The wipe card facility is also offered by the Adelaide Aquatic Center, which can be obtained by the person with a disability or attendant care supporter from the reception desk, which allows the companion to enter the activities and venues free of charge.

Accessibility Details of Adelaide Parklands

The Great Ocean stays provide the accommodation which are suitable for the guest or people with disability (with wheelchairs) to get all the modern facilities of high end resort. The Great Ocean stays also provide free mobility aids, non-clinical modern, accessible homes, in home services, and Hospital beds wherever required.

The disabled water ski Australia provides the opportunities for sports to the people with disabilities. The people with disabilities or athlete can complete against able-bodied athletes or in their own category. People participate in the 3 event tournaments like trick, slalom, and jump. The ski with disability include National and state titles. The disabled water ski Australia also offers national team to world disabled water skiing Championship which take place every 2 years. The disable water ski Australia provides an opportunity for the range of disability,  including paraplegia, quadriplegia, leg/arm amputees, blindness and vision impairment, so that they can compete in above water skiing competitions. The people try and come from each State division to learn how to ski and the advisors and coaching are provided to the people along with adaptive equipment. The disabled water ski Australia believes that water skiing is for everybody and every individual can do it.

Disability equipment provider known as Push mobility in Australia is dedicated to provide the disability equipment that is exciting, fun, and pushes the scope of the equipment of what equipment should be. The goal of push possibility is to improve the quality of life for people with disability and those who are associated with the people with disabilities, especially with the wheelchairs. The push mobility aims to offer the services and products that make the people with disabilities to take pride in using and getting out. Push mobility works with different manufacturers that customize the chairs as per the requirements of the people with disability, whether it is a radical color concept or small modification. The push mobility aims to provide affordable products by searching for the ways to lower the price without compromising on service and quality.

The Jubilee sailing trust (JST) is a United Nation disability Charity which promotes the adventure and challenge of tail ship sailing. It provides the offer to the life changing environment with people with all levels of physical disability, backgrounds, and ages, by providing life and leadership skills, building confidence, and improving their self esteem. They have designed the custom tail ships, including the wheelchair accessible which provide the platform with an aid for people with and the tail ship with a joystick so that the able bodied crew, staff supports and physically disabled people can work together side by side (Parvaneh, 2013).

Accessibility Details of Bonython Park, Adelaide Botanic Garden, Rymill Park, Elder Park, and Adelaide Oval

The Para Quad South Australia provides the assistance to the people with spinal cord injury and has a positive impact to the broader disability community. The Para Quad South Australia has been supporting the people of South Australia for over 50 years and has successfully achieved the highest level of excellence and service quality. The Para Quad South Australia is a not-for-profit organization which is run by a dedicated staff and team of passionate volunteers who work together to fully participate and enable everyone to live their potential. The community believes in providing the rights to the people with disabilities and helps them to face the barriers they face. They influence the effective transformations and successfully deliver the services to remove the barriers and uphold their rights. The community presence is strong in South Australia and is represented on many NGO committees, and government committees with respect to accommodation, workforce development, and service quality.

There are issues with current toilets in accessibility in public events. The main issue is the size of the toilet in which the disabled person could not get in their wheelchair. There are also the issues related to the discrimination in use and access to premises, discrimination in use and access to services, Goods, and facilities, in the places of public entertainment (Consultants, 2018). Thus, it is also recommended for people with disability to choose the right venue and the stakeholders must provide the access configuration with proper event planning by travelling to the event, handling the event, arriving at the event, accessing Goods and services, emergency management, and obtaining further assistance, etc.

However, it has also been studied that the City Council committee of Adelaide has rejected the plan to provide parking facility for the disabled persons, especially with the wheelchairs, but the economic and community development Committee has voted against the rejection because of the fears for the Parkland. It has been argued by the City Council committee that the parking on the Pinky flat may spoil the beauty of Adelaide because they don’t want the riverside to be looking car park. However, the committee has now approved a plan to build the ramps on the war Memorial drive and King William road to improve the pickup and drop-off areas for the disabled persons (Templeton, 2015).

It has been found from the study that in terms of accessibility tourism, the barriers of Portland events are the lack of reliable information about the attractions, lack of well adapted hotel rooms, lack of professional staff, lack of adapted toilets, inaccessible sidewalks and streets, lack of disability equipments and technical aids such as toilet raisers bath chairs, wheel chairs, etc. At the sight for people with disability, it has been found that the push mobility equipments, immersion therapy, leisure based therapies, car parking, changing rooms, sporting facilities are provided to the person with disabilities in some of the parklands. However, these facilities are limited to the parklands (Travability Pty Ltd., 2018).

South Australia and Sydney Accessibility Comparison

While comparing the events in Sydney and South Australia, it has been noted that, in Sydney, there are numerous Park like Centennial Parklands, Moore Park, Sydney Park, and Royal Botanic Garden Sydney which provide all the facilities and have various suitable places for people with disabilities. They have accessibility for people with disability. The art gallery in New South Wales provides the wheelchair access at the rear of the gallery. Also, the lift access is provided with all accessible toilets.

Also, more research is required as this research report is limited to the identification of persons with disabilities, especially wheelchairs, the study of accessible tourism is vast and the person with other impairments is not included in this report.

Conclusion

This research report scrutinizes that the acceptability of the events held in the Adelaide parklands to the people with disability can be through the services provided by the Good Scout Company. It has been identified that Adelaide Park Lands provide the access to the Park Lands to maximize public access by creating an event calendar that allows the people, especially with disabilities while making sure that all the public toilets and basic amenities remain un-fenced. The Adelaide Metro provides a safer travel for the passengers with disability, especially who are using wheelchairs on public transport. It has also been analyzed in this report that some of the parklands in Adelaide provide the valid parking and have some staff members to help them around the events, but still Adelaide is lacking behind Sydney in providing the services.

It is required to include the association between human resources and labor market in the field of tourism, in terms of academic training courses and scientific experts, so that the problem of lack of skilled manpower can be solved to a greater extent. The organizational and structural obstacles are needed to avoid money and time and it is required to identify the constraints, capabilities, and opportunities, in the regions by inviting the experts and scholars to localize the plan for Tourism Development according to tourism programs and localized plan which can be designed and implemented as per the accessibility of the disabled persons (Parvaneh, 2013). Regarding the tourism services and poor infrastructure, the most prominent aspect is the Transportation system which is required to be developed in each area of Adelaide and required ease of access and Good constitution for the people with disabilities, especially with wheel chairs. It is also recommended that information and communication will help the passenger or individual with disability for long term.

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