Entrepreneur, tourism leader, inclusive experience champion
Recognised as one of Australia’s nine most influential female entrepreneurs and a Queensland Young Tourism Leader, Hailey Brown has become a catalyst for change within the tourism industry. Upon recognising that blind and low-vision tourists were precluded from travelling as tourism marketing is typically visual, in 2020 Hailey founded Vacayit, the world’s first audio storytelling platform for tourism.
In just a year, almost half of the destinations in Australia have uprooted traditional image-based marketing (image), and implemented a previously untouched asset to their channels — audio. Hailey aims to drive positive societal change around how destinations and operators market their experiences to be inclusive and accessible and she won’t stop until the whole world has been described in audio.
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