‘Cocky Guides’ Launches Innovative Sensory Tours for people who are Blind or Low Vision

As accessible tourism continues to grow, one social enterprise is running ground-breaking multisensory trips around Australia.

James ‘Buck’ McFarlane, founded Cocky Guides, a company dedicated to providing multi-sensory group tours for those who are blind or have low vision, following many years of working as a tour guide. Through the years he was often surprised to have never encountered blind or low-vision travelers on his trips. Finding a lack of tour operators catering specifically to blind and low-vision travelers, McFarlane found a new purpose and four years later, Cocky Guides was born.

Travelers with Cocky Guides can still experience the big tourist attraction, just in a different way. Tours are simply sensory in other ways, focusing on touch or smell to give travelers a sense of where they are. Trips are always about the client’s experience. As McFarlane says, “If we need to stay in a treehouse in the Daintree because that makes the experience better… we’ll go for the treehouse.”

Click here to learn more about Cocky Guides and their numerous destinations.