Find out details and information about Indigenous tourism operators in your local area or anywhere in Australia.

Looking at what other operators are doing to become successful can help you to build up your own tourism business. It can also be useful to check how many other similar tourism businesses are operating in your area, to ensure you will be able to compete successfully in a market before starting up a new business.

Name	Type	Location	State/Territory
3 Day Rock Art, Rainforest & Cooktown Safari offered by Wilderness Challenge	Safari to Rock Art sites and interpretive walk with traditional owners	Cairns	QLD
Wilderness Challenge, award-winning Cairns 4WD safari operator, provides a 3 day safari which visits some of Australia’s most revered rock art in the sandstone escarpment of the Great Dividing Range near Laura. The Quinkan Rock Art’s diverse images and engravings are rated by UNESCO among the world’s top ten rock art regions. The region’s Aboriginal occupation dates back over 30,000 years and images of Quinkan spirits, totem animals and human figures adorn the sandstone shelters. The safari also walks with Aboriginal guides – the traditional owners of the Wujal Wujal area to spectacular Bloomfield Falls. Wilderness Challenge’s range of Cape York safaris also include these elements.
Tel: 61 7 4035 4488 Website: www.wilderness-challenge.com.au
Aboriginal Blue Mountains Walkabout	Guided Walking Tour	Springwood	NSW
Awarded Australia's best walking experience "Walkabout" is a powerful and thought provoking journey of discovery. A spiritual celebration of our traditional ceremonies, creativity and daily life. Aboriginal owned and guided, this tour follows an ancient walkabout songline. It leads you off track through secluded Blue Mountains rainforest to experience hidden places of wonder. View ancient art, ceremonial sites and hear dreamtime stories. This amazing life changing journey will stimulate your senses, enrich your spirit and give you a timeless connection to our ancient land.
Tel: NA Website: www.BlueMountainsWalkabout.com
Aboriginal Bush Traders	Tourism and Retail	Darwin	NT
Aboriginal Bush Traders is a community based, not-for-profit initiative that operates an Aboriginal Art and Crafts retail outlet and an Indigenous tourism desk in the Darwin CBD. Through the Darwin Indigenous Tourism Hub, we work with a number of Aboriginal owned businesses offering tourism products throughout the Top End region, offering customers a range of Indigenous tourism experiences through one booking point. Aboriginal Bush Traders also offers a coordination point both for consumers and trade enquiries for specialised cultural events or activities. We aim to develop and expand the capabilities of Aboriginal Cultural Touring throughout the Top End, complementing our other community projects including the sale of local Indigenous art and craft through our retail outlet at Brown’s Mart Reserve.
Tel: 61 8 8944 7200 Website: www.aboriginalbushtraders.com
Aboriginal Cultural Tours – Adjahdura Land	Tours	Point Pearce	SA
Multi-Award Winning South Australia Aboriginal tourism operator - ECO Certified and Nationally Accredited . Gain an incredible insight into Aboriginal culture and heritage with “Aboriginal Cultural Tours - Adjahdura Land”. Experience the world through Aboriginal eyes. Incorporating 40,000 years of Aboriginal Dreaming, culture and heritage - the land’s secrets come alive. When we walk in the footsteps of our ancestors, our guests can literally see and touch the past. We expose Australia’s hidden history and discuss contemporary issues that affect our way of life today. Cultural ceremonies, Dreaming stories, ancient sites, breathtaking views, wildlife and much more - we share our world with our guests
Website: www.adjahdura.com.au
Aboriginal Desert Discovery Tours	Tours	Alice Springs	NT
This award winning Aboriginal owned and guided tour offers visitors an opportunity to share their culture. Share Arrernte desert culture, dreamings, language, stories, history and bush tucker. Try boomerang throwing and learn about local Aboriginal traditions
Tel: 61 8 8952 3408 Website: www.aboriginalaustralia.com
Aboriginal Heritage Tour	Tours	Sydney	NSW
Join in a journey of discovery with your Aboriginal guide in an informative tour highlighting the rich Aboriginal heritage in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. Discover the significance of this site to the Cadigal original inhabitants of the Sydney city area; experience traditional Aboriginal culture, artefacts and taste bush food. Tours with an Aboriginal interpretive component are also offered at Mount Annan and Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens upon request.
Tel: +61 2 9231 8128 or +61 2 9231 8134 Website: www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
Aboriginal Heritage Walk – Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne	Tours	South Yarra	Vic
See through different eyes with an Aboriginal guide as you walk the beautiful Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. The award-winning Aboriginal Heritage Walk is a vibrant cultural experience providing visitors with a greater understanding of, and respect for, the rich heritage of the local Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) people. Explore traditional uses of plants for food, medicine, tools and ceremony. Discover the ancestral lands that the Royal Botanic Gardens now occupies.
Tel: 61 3 9252 2494 Website: www.rbg.vic.gov.au
Alice Springs Aboriginal Culture Tours	Guided Tour	Leichardt Terrace	NT
Discover the history of The Central Arrernte culture and Caterpillar (Yeperenye) story as told by your Aboriginal Guide. Travel alongside the famous Todd River, view the old Afghan Cameleers campsites and learn about their connection with the Ghan. Enjoy a guided tour through EMILY GAP and JESSIE GAP which includes a viewing of sacred sites and an explanation about the traditional sources of food and medicine. Visit the Anzac Hill panoramic lookout over the Town of Alice. Taste the Australian Native Cuisine with the buffet lunch at the Red Ochre Grill Restaurant
Tel: 61 8 8950 6666 Website: www.aboriginalculturetours.com.au
Alice Springs Helicopters	Aboriginal Art Tour / Arrernte Discovery	Alice Springs	NT
Alice Springs Helicopters are working with a number of locally based operators to provide unique experiences for visitors to the region. In conjunction with Discovery EcoTours guests now have the opportunity to visit Black Tank Community for a unique full day experience with a private guide. Santa Teresa Art Centre can also be visited for those wishing to view and purchase art at a community owned art centre. All tours are conducted as private charters with maximum passenger numbers of four per helicopter. Heli-Touring is without a doubt the most incredible way to travel the vast expanse of the central desert in comfort, luxury and style.
Tel: 61 8 8952 9800 Website: www.alicespringshelicopters.com.au
Alice Wanderer and Rainbow Valley Cultural Tours	Aboriginal Cultural Tour	Alice Springs	NT
Travel 90km south from Alice Springs to Rainbow Valley to meet your host, a Traditional custodian. Relax over a mug of billy tea and be introduced to an amazing Culture and Country. After lunch your host will share the spectacular Art Site of Rainbow Valley where you will experience, rock art, engravings and occupations sites never before open to the public. In the afternoon your Aboriginal guide will share the ancient landscape of Rainbow Valley and explain some of its Cultural significance. In the late afternoon admire the changing colours of a spectacular sunset with a glass of champagne and light dinner before we say farewell and return to Alice Springs. This unique NEW tour blends Culture and Country with the bold beauty of Central Australia. It will leave you with Lasting memories and a greater understanding of Aboriginal Culture.
Tel: 61 8 8952 2111 Website: www.alicewanderer.com.au

This is not a definitive list of Indigenous tourism businesses. If you are not listed but would like to be or you would like to correct or update your details shown on the site – please contact your relevant State Tourism Organisation contact who can update your details.

The operator listings have been drawn from the National Indigenous Tourism Product Manual (NITPM) which was developed by Indigenous Tourism Australia with the assistance of the State and Territory Tourism Organisations (STOs) - to give Indigenous tourism operators the opportunity to showcase their products and experiences. The NITPM showcases Australia’s key 'export ready' and ‘market ready’ tourism products which are either majority Indigenous owned and/or operated. For more on the NITPM click here.

Also check out the case studies for more in-depth information on selected Indigenous tourism operators.

Key STO Aboriginal Tourism Contacts