{"id":1057,"date":"2019-12-12T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiaadvisory.co\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2019-12-08T14:13:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T03:13:30","slug":"walkabout-cultural-adventures-takes-out-the-cultural-tourism-australia-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiaadvisory.co\/walkabout-cultural-adventures-takes-out-the-cultural-tourism-australia-award\/","title":{"rendered":"WALKABOUT CULTURAL ADVENTURES TAKES OUT THE CULTURAL TOURISM AUSTRALIA AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Local tour company Walkabout Cultural Adventures was awarded the Cultural Tourism Australia award at the recent 2019 Adventure Tourism Awards. Walkabout Cultural Adventures is a 100 per cent Aboriginal owned and operated tour company based in the Douglas Shire. Owner and guide Juan Walker said his tour is about giving people an insight into Aboriginal culture and land management. He added it feels great to be recognised after years of hard work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1058\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/asiaadvisory.co\/cooya-beach-juan-guiding\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/asiaadvisory.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cooya-beach-juan-guiding.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,614\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;TOURISM TROPICAL NORTH QLD&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cooya-beach-juan-guiding\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/asiaadvisory.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cooya-beach-juan-guiding.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/asiaadvisory.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cooya-beach-juan-guiding.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/asiaadvisory.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cooya-beach-juan-guiding.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1058\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.newsport.com.au\/2019\/november\/walkabout-cultural-adventures-takes-out-the-cultural-tourism-australia-award\/<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local tour company Walkabout Cultural Adventures was awarded the Cultural Tourism Australia award at the recent 2019 Adventure Tourism Awards.<a href=\"https:\/\/asiaadvisory.co\/walkabout-cultural-adventures-takes-out-the-cultural-tourism-australia-award\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142704466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","ub_ctt_via":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691035363,294381635,364405036],"rise-blocks_total_comments":0,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":31,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":31,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"Local tour company Walkabout Cultural Adventures was awarded the Cultural Tourism Australia award at the recent 2019 Adventure Tourism Awards. Walkabout Cultural Adventures is a 100 per cent Aboriginal owned and operated tour company based in the Douglas Shire. Owner and guide Juan Walker said his tour is about giving people an insight into Aboriginal culture and land management. 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