Growing older : tourism and leisure behaviour of older adults /

• Main Author: Patterson, Ian Robert, 1945- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Older people > Recreation.; Older people > Travel.; Information and Documentation.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Marketing and Distribution.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Leisure.; Tourism and Travel.; Man.; Aging.; Behaviour.; Constraints.; Elderly.; Information services.; Leisure behaviour.; Marketing.; Motivation.; Package holidays.; Tourism.; Tours.; Travel.; Visitor behaviour.; Electronic books.
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This book explores the characteristics, tourist/leisure behaviours and tourism/leisure needs of older people, and how to effectively market to this expanding group in the future. The book's chapters examine: the motivations and constraints to tourism and leisure for older adults; sociodemograph...

Table of Contents:

• Tourism and Leisure Needs of Older Adults
• Motivations and Constraints to Tourism and Leisure for Older Adults
• Socio-demographic Variables Associated with Tourism, Leisure and Ageing
• Contemporary Trends in International Tourism and Travel for Older Adults
• Information Sources on Tourism and Travel for Older People
• Modes of Tourism and Leisure Travel by Older Adults
• Different Travel Markets : Group Package Tours for Older Adults
• Different Travel Markets : Adventure Tourism and the Baby Boomer Generation
• Different Travel Markets : Educational Tourism and Older Adults
• Tourism and Leisure Needs of Older Adults in Retirement Communities
• Conclusions and Recommendations.