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
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 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
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
Amuwarngka Cultural Tour	Walking tours and vehicle based touring	Alyangula	NT
Amuwarngka Cultural Tours is an Aboriginal owned and operated company based on Groote Eylandt, off the coast of the Northern Territory of Australia. Our experienced Aboriginal guides ensure you are rewarded with truly traditional cultural experiences, learning about land values and lifestyle of the Warnindilyakwa people on Groote Eylandt.
Tel: 1800 877 077 Website: www.amuwarngkatours.com.au/index.html
Anangu Tours	Indigenous Guided Day Tours at Uluru	Alice Springs	NT
Anangu Tours is owned by the traditional Aboriginal owners of Uluru (Ayers Rock). All tours are led by local Aboriginal (Anangu) guides who will speak their native language, Pitjantjatjara. This is then interpreted by one of our skilled interpreters. Anangu guides are traditional Aboriginal people who have spent their entire lives living around Uluru, immersed in Anangu Culture. On our small group tours we combine a unique cultural experience with the opportunity to view sunrise and sunset at Uluru. Anangu Tours is one of Australia’s most awarded tour companies, winning the Legacy World Tourism Award for Heritage Tourism in 2004, inducted into the Australian Tourism Hall of Fame in 2003 after winning 3 consecutive awards, and winning its 8th Northern Territory Brolga Award for Tourism Excellence in 2004.
Tel: 61 8 8950 3030 or 1800 806 499 Website: www.ananguwaai.com.au
Anangu Waai!	Provides central reservations and marketing for their three businesses in Central Australia	Alice Springs	NT
Anangu Waai! is a marketing and management company for three Central Australian tourism businesses. It provides valuable support for Anangu Tours, Uluru Camel Tours and Frontier Camel Tours.
Tel: 61 8 8950 3030 or 1800 806 499 Website: www.ananguwaai.com.au
Arnhem Land Eco-Cultural Tours	Eco-Tours	Winnellie	NT
Arnhem Land eco-cultural tours offer exclusive and enlightening Aboriginal culture tours in the remote region of Arnhem Land. Arnhem Land eco-cultural tours is owned and operated by an Aboriginal Corporation in Maningrida known as ‘Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation’. The traditional land owners of this territory would love to express their knowledge and culture beyond Maningrida and to show the secrets of their meaningful art work along with cultural protocols and their dreaming towards their country. These tours have been performed together by local Aboriginal people that are prepared to share their story. These tours are intentional designed to enhance your cultural experience and are flexible to design your own tour to achieve the best possible outcome.
Tel: 61 8 8979 5946 Website: www.maningrida.com/tourism 33
Arnhem Land Marine Rescue Community Project - World Expeditions Dhimurru Rangers	Participatory Conservation Work	Sydney	NT
The North East Arnhemland Coast is one of Australia’s most beautiful coastlines, virtually free from development and enjoying the custodianship of the Yolngu Aboriginal Traditional owners. However this pristine coastline is facing an environmental threat from marine debris washed in on the ocean currents, from throughout the South East Asian region and deposited on the Arnhemland Coast. This waste is a major threat to the wildlife, as animals get caught up in the nets and choke on the plastic rubbish. This project works alongside the Yolngu Aboriginal Rangers from Dhimurru Land Management as we together collect, catalogue and dispose of the marine rubbish, and also learn from Traditional Yolngu Aboriginal knowledge and understanding of the land, sea and animals
Tel: 1300 720 000 Website: www.worldexpeditions.com

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