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GetAboutAble is a leading Australian accessible tourism consultancy, supporting tourism businesses to improve their access and inclusion.
20% of the population has access needs, including vision, hearing, mobility, neurodiversity and hidden disabilities. That’s 1 in 5 people who actively seek accessible and inclusive venues and experiences. GetAboutAble not only supports tourism operators to enhance travel and leisure opportunities for people with disability (PWD), but also to tap into the “disabled dollar” and market to this valuable audience.
By providing a wide range of consulting services and coordinating the annual Accessible & Inclusive Tourism Conference, GetAboutAble strives to change industry mindsets and business practices, promoting social participation and employment for people with disability throughout the tourism industry.
Heidi La Paglia Reid (she/her) is a proud Autistic, queer and disabled consultant and advocate living in Muwinina Country, in Lutriwita, Hobart, Tasmania. Heidi has over a decade of experience working in professional and voluntary roles in the disability and women's rights sector as well as extensive personal experience navigating chronic health conditions and disability. After becoming a mother in 2022 and finding juggling employment, disability and parenting inaccessible, Heidi set up her consulting business.
In her consultancy, Heidi specialises in gender equity, disability rights and neuro-inclusion and is passionate about transforming organisations, political movements and spaces to ensure are are safe for and accessible to communities who experience intersectional marginalisation .
Heidi offers services in a range of areas such as research, report writing, project management, facilitation, public speaking, neurodiversity training and more.