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The travel constraints faced by retired travelers in the 21st. In Journal of Consumer Marketing 38 (1)

This purpose of this paper is to identify the travel constraints faced by retired travelers and the influence that becoming old in the 21st century exerts on the erection of travel barriers. Interviews with retired respondents led to the identification of 10 categories of travel constraints. The results confirm the specific influence of advancement in age and the need to reinterpret known constraints in the context of ageing today.

Mobility Patterns of the Elderly Tourist in Algarve

851 interviews with older tourists arriving in Algarve (Portugal) summer of 2018, to understand their preferences and needs in terms of mobility. It presents the characterization of the senior tourist in Algarve, according to: gender, age, academic qualification, situation in the relation to the profession, nationality, disability and/or disabilities that affects mobility and the need to use technical aids to move.

Transport and the ageing of the population.

Fifty European experts were asked to submit papers examining not only the major issues addressed by transport economics in the past, but also those that are likely to emerge in the future. What are the main difficulties facing transport economics? What have been the main advances and how can they help us to solve problems? What remains to be done? These papers are presented in this volume which also includes a full summary of the discussions at the Round Table.

Designing and evaluating tourism experiences in senior mobility. an application of the OEC Framework

Main goal to present a 3-stage model of designing and evaluating tourism experiences in senior mobility, ( the OEC Model.) Findings highlight the importance of a pre-stage in what concerns organizing the tourism experience (supply perspective); and a post-stage assessing senior´s perceptions after the experience (demand perspective).