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Travel Behavior of the Elderly and Quality-of-Life

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The progressive ageing of the population around the world, particularly in developed countries, has drawn increasing interest in tourism activity of the elderly on the part of researchers, practitioners and representatives of national and regional authorities. Consequently, international literature on tourism includes analyses of tourist behavior, motivation and the inclination of elderly persons to travel, also devoting attention to links between quality of life and pursuit of the need to travel among elderly. On a global scale, one can currently observe the so-called generation shock, which sees the generation born after World War II enter retirement age. This generation is characterised by fundamentally different needs, aspirations and behaviors from their predecessors, all of which may be worthwhile to know. This chapter thus offers an overview of international literature and defines the concept of the elderly, as well as discusses the behavior of elderly with respect to tourism activity undertaken and the factors which influence the latter. Furthermore, an attempt has been made to demonstrate the relationship between the quality of life and the willingness of elderly to travel, drawing on numerous findings from research conducted among elderly tourists in selected countries.

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Zielińska-Szczepkowska, J. (2023). Travel Behavior of the Elderly and Quality-of-Life. In: Uysal, M., Sirgy, M.J. (eds) Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research II. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31513-8_11

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