Travel-Related Lifestyle Profiles Of Older Women

Hawes, Douglass K.

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“…By analysing the previous studies on senior travel, the authors encountered different definitions of a senior traveller proposed by different authors: (1) 50 years old and above (Hawes, 1988;Blazey, 1992;Milman, 1998), (2) 55 years old and over (Lieux, Weaver, & McCleary, 1994;Shoemaker 2000), and (3) 60 years and older (Capella & Greco, 1987). For the purpose of this study, the authors investigated people aged 55 and older, who are labelled in the scientific literature as the senior market (Shoemaker, 1989), the mature market (Lazer, 1985), or the silver market (Branchik, 2010).…”

Section: Senior Tourismmentioning

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Senior tourists’ preferences in the developing countries – measuring perceptions of Serbian potential senior market

Spasojević

Kovačić

2016

European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation

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Senior leisure travel became a significant part of the global tourism market, and developing countries with lower GNP, such as South-East European countries, are also part of this trend. The principal aim of the paper was to explore the senior tourists' preferences (choice of destination, transport, and accommodation), their travel motivation, and travel limitations of this fast-growing market with immense potential in this country. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 320 senior tourists in the five biggest cities of Serbia. The results indicate spa and mountain centres as preferable travel destinations among the potential senior tourists in Serbia, while the major factors for choosing a destination showed to be travel costs, climate conditions, and destination proximity. The research findings also showed that the principal travel motives are rest and relaxation and health improvement, and in connection to this, the most preferable activities on the destination are engagement in spa and medical treatments and spending time in unspoiled nature. Moreover, the study indicates financial difficulties and health concerns as the major travel barriers of potential senior market in Serbia. The research findings can be used as a framework for all tourism stakeholders involved in tailoring a specific tourism product for Serbian senior travel market.

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Section: Senior Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Senior tourists’ preferences in the developing countries – measuring perceptions of Serbian potential senior market

Spasojević

Kovačić

2016

European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation

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“…The studies analysed in this paper have been published over a period of about 25 years, going from 1988 (Hawes 1988) to 2014 (Chen and Shoemaker 2014;Ward 2014), to still forthcoming ones (Woo et al 2015). Seniors of various nationalities (USA, Europe, Asia and Australia) have been interviewed in the studies, either while travelling or on the basis of preliminary questions on their travelling experience, or, as in several cases, without any screening procedure rather than the sole age.…”

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Travel Motivations of Seniors: A Review and a Meta-Analytical Assessment

Patuelli

Nijkamp

2015

SSRN Journal

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Over the past decades, leisure travel has become increasingly popular in older segments of the world population, as a consequence of global factors such as a rise in life expectancy, improved health conditions, a higher disposable income, and increased availability of discretionary time in retirement age. Consequently, researchers have become more interested in studying the motivations for travel of seniors. A number of questions may be raised or have been addressed in the recent past: What are the main factors explaining the travelling choices of seniors? Are their travel motivations different from the ones of the younger population, which have been widely studied in the past? Are geographical differences in terms of motivations comparable between different age groups? Why is senior tourism a topic of particular interest with regard to Asia? In order to answer such questions, in this paper we provide a review of the literature on the travel motivations of seniors. On the basis of 29 articles published on the topic, we provide a qualitative and meta-analytic assessment of past findings, by investigating the dimensions of travel motivations most frequently employed in past seniors surveys. Finally, we discuss a research agenda for further analysis of senior travel motivations and for the integration of this branch of travel research within a wider framework.

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“…Thus, it is possible, for instance, to be an "adventure-seeking" tourist both at the age of 20 and at the age of 50. Although it is of course possible to focus on the specific lifestyle clusters encountered in a particular age group, such as seniors (Hawes, 1993;Lee & Tideswell, 2005;Littrell et al, 2004;Oates, Schufeldt, & Vaught, 1996), this focussed approach does not easily allow for a comparison between age groups, and thus teaches us relatively little about senior versus non-senior travel and tourism behaviours.…”

Section: Life Course Variation In Travel and Leisurementioning

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Senior and non‐senior traveller behaviour: some exploratory evidence from the holiday rental sector in Switzerland

Sund

Boksberger

2007

Tourism Review

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An important number of studies have been made concerning life course variation in travel and leisure behaviour, often from the point of view of the travel life cycle. Whilst many facets of travel and leisure have been discussed, there is a quasi total lack of literature on the particular sector of holiday rentals, despite the importance of that sector. Given the demographic ageing currently taking place in many European countries, it becomes important not just to further pursue research on age as it relates to travel behaviour, but also to extend the analysis to other areas of tourism than those most frequently studied. In this paper we formulate a number of hypotheses concerning the willingness to pay for holiday rentals and travel preferences, which we subsequently test, using a survey of Swiss households. We find evidence to support our hypotheses and find significant differences between both non-seniors and seniors, as well as between younger and older seniors.3

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Travel-Related Lifestyle Profiles Of Older Women

Cited by 83 publications

References 19 publications

Senior tourists’ preferences in the developing countries – measuring perceptions of Serbian potential senior market

Senior tourists’ preferences in the developing countries – measuring perceptions of Serbian potential senior market

Travel Motivations of Seniors: A Review and a Meta-Analytical Assessment

Senior and non‐senior traveller behaviour: some exploratory evidence from the holiday rental sector in Switzerland

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