Senior Tourism in Italy: the Role of Disability and Socioeconomic Characteristics

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Zantomio, Francesca

doi:10.1007/s12062-020-09286-3

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“…Results show a positive, although not significant, correlation between the free entrance and the share of elderly people visiting the institution. This could confirm what is suggested by the relevant literature: while money matters (Cavapozzi and Zantomio, 2021), monetary reasons may not be the main hindrance to senior tourists. The negative and significant correlation with the possibility to enjoy free entrance for accompanying people calls for further investigation; it may suggest that the elderly people visiting museums are in quite good health.…”

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“…The results also advocate that monetary reasons may not be the main obstacle to the enjoyment of cultural sites by aged people: in this sense, the evidence of a negative and significant correlation between the free entrance for accompanying people and the share of elderly visitors, together with the lack of significance of the variables related to disability, might signify that accompanying people are not necessary to visit a cultural site, so that elderly people are not encouraged by the circumstance that their caregivers do not pay the entrance ticket. This is in line with the "activity theory", which suggests that senior travellers are those who have access not only to a large amount of spare time but also to substantial financial resources (Nimrod, 2007;Cavapozzi and Zantomio, 2021). By shedding some light on the type of accessibility barriers to senior tourism arising from the supply-side, the present study can help policymakers to prioritize the spread of touristic information tailored to the senior citizens.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…An investigation concerning the environmental barriers and enablers of senior tourism may, therefore, throw some light on possible ways to reduce the burden on the aged population. An example of potential barriers reduction is suggested by Cavapozzi and Zantomio (2021) in a study carried out on a large Italian population dataset. The authors argue that impediments for senior tourists depend on a low socioeconomic status and disabilities that could regard ageing people.…”

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Museums’ accessibility for senior citizens: Some evidence from Italy

Giammanco¹,

Gitto²,

Ofria³

2022

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This paper uses the information on elderly visitors, drawn from a survey carried out by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) in 2018, to identify the factors that facilitate or hinder senior tourists’ visits to museums. The resulting evidence captures how the accessibility of museums impacts the share of elderly visitors who have access problems and higher need of assistance and, therefore, provides useful information to improve cultural supply. The econometric analysis shows some significant relationships between the dependent variable, namely, the share of senior visitors on the total visitors, and the dummy variables employed as regressors indicating the existence of free admission for a certain category of visitors who have a problem of access, free admission for accompanying person, the presence of communication/promotional campaigns aimed at seniors visitors, the presence of an on- line catalogue, and support for visitors with access difficulties. Monetary reasons are not a major hindrance to enjoy cultural sites. The study further outlines certain aspects that should be taken into account to increase senior citizens’ participation in museum activities.

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Museums’ accessibility for senior citizens: Some evidence from Italy

Giammanco¹,

Gitto²,

Ofria³

2022

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“…In particular, we do not reject the hypothesis that the retirement effect on internet use is stronger for singles among males. This finding suggests that having a partner might be supportive of maintaining the familiarity with internet, for instance to organize common activities in leisure time (Cavapozzi and Zantomio, 2021 ), to maintain contacts with children or to manage joint financial investments. Conversely, for women, we found that the detrimental retirement effect on computer skills is stronger for those who live in couple, whereas the effect on internet use does not vary across groups.…”

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Does retirement reduce familiarity with Information and Communication Technology?

Cavapozzi

Bianco

2021

Rev Econ Household

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This paper analyses the effect of retirement on the familiarity with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of older individuals. We argue that inability to cope with ICT might represent a threat for older individuals’ social inclusion. To account for the potential endogeneity of retirement with respect to familiarity with ICT, we instrument retirement decision with the age-eligibility for early and statutory retirement pension schemes. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we show that retirement reduces the computer literacy and the frequency of internet utilization for men and women. This finding is robust to the inclusion as control factors of health, cognition and social network indicators, which the literature has shown to be affected by retirement. Overall, the reduction in the familiarity with ICT after retirement tends to be stronger in the long-run.

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