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The International Social Tourism Organisation (ISTO) is an international non-profit organisation. Bringing together stakeholders from the social, sustainable and solidarity tourism sectors from all over the world, ISTO promotes accessible and responsible tourism.

How to deal with Tourism constraints for seniors? Evidence from social tourism programmes. 2021 J.of Tourism and Cultural Change.

The analysis intersects the three groups of constraints – intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural – with three strands of uncertainty faced by seniors – travel uncertainty, financial uncertainty and mobility uncertaintyand corresponding social support adjustments: personal support mechanisms and instrumental support mechanisms. The proposed model shows that travel social support is of central importance for effectively negotiating the travel constraints in social tourism for seniors.

The REstrictions on Travel of Elderly Tourists and their Mitigation by Facilitators and Negotiation Strategies International Conference on Tourism

Tourism promoters and managers, stakeholders and DMO’s, have the great challenge of mitigating, as much as possible, the travel restrictions of elderly tourists, through several strategies and tools that allow a greater participation of this segment of the population in tourism activities.

Senior Tourism Perspectives in the Context of Pension reform in Russia. Strategic decisions and risk management, Real Economy Publishing House.

The article presents an attempt to summarize the specific risks and problems that the tourism sector will have to face in connection with the increases in the retirement age. Along with this, the opportunities and prospects that are opened up to the industry as a whole and the development of particular types of tourism and tourism sub-sectors are identified and analyzed under the condition that the increases in the retirement age are indeed accompanied, as it is planned, by overall improvements in the socioeconomic activity, productivity and paying capacity of senior citizens.

"Circular Economy Model for Elderly Tourism Operation based om muliti-source Heterogeneous data integration"

The emerging senior tourism industry has attracted increasing attention in China due to the continuous development of social, economic and technological factors. However, the senior tourism market in China still faces significant shortages, and further market development is needed. To address this issue, a senior tourism business model based on the circular economy, artificial intelligence (AI) technology and multi-source heterogeneous data integration has been proposed in this study.