Improving attrativeness of destinations for seniors.

Making gastronomic marketing attractive to seniors.

A critical view on age segementation, travel segments etc. This editorial updated relevant data related to the senior tourism market, emphasizing today's characteristics of this segment. It points also directions for future research and concludes that this special issue makes a significant contribution to senior tourism research.

This research analyses the current self-reported level of proficiency of environmental skills, the required future level of proficiency, and the gaps between them. Given the increasingly urgent need for the tourism industry to take action to support environmental management practices, this research provides evidence of key environmental skill gaps. The findings revealed that the country of registration, the size and the tourism sector type influence significantly the current and future proficiency levels of environmental skills, and the gaps between them.

Despite LAs legal responsibilities for tourism sustainably , plus development of procedures for facilitating evidence-informed planning for tourism, lack of sufficient monitoring of several key tourism impacts at destination level in this study, questions ability of Irish senior planners to plan sustainably for tourism and protect the tourism product going forward.

The practical implications for policing, tourism and policymaking, and for the local citizenry in Tobago regarding the safety, security and economic sustainability of tourism on the island.

Despite the fact of being the most prominent characteristic of tourism, tourism seasonality still remains a phenomenon. Almost all world destinations are facing seasonal concentration of tourist activities. The peaking of tourist demand in few hectic weeks or months is resulting in inefficient use of tourism facilities and pressure on the ecological and sociocultural carrying capacity. Strategies and policies to extend the main season and develop additional seasons are needed. The assumption is good understanding of tourism seasonality.

The aims of this study were to discuss negative effects of seasonality on tourism and its remedies, and also to find evidence for any positive effects of seasonality discussed in the literature.

This article studies the profile of mature travelers on the basis of Internet use. More specifically, the intention is to examine the demographic and socio- ii economic characteristics of mature travelers who use the Internet compared to those who do not use the Internet.

This study analyzes the psychological characteristics and travel behavior of American senior leisure tourists. This study further suggests that although marketing programs geared toward the senior market need to be updated, they do not need to be radically changed over time. Marketers should also expect the average age of the senior travel market to rise, since traditionally defined “young seniors” of 55 to about 60 years should no longer be considered seniors, and they might not be interested in senior programs.