This study was designed to identify distinct segments within the senior motorcoach traveler market. Appropriate marketing strategies were recommended for tour operators to target each segment effectively.

This report aims to provide a better understanding of the aging process and its links with the economy - and ultimately to guide policy making. Policy makers can meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of aging by facilitating behavioral adaptation.

This survey shows the percentage of EU citizens that traveled in 2011 and factors that form their traveling plans.

This paper provides evidence that older tourists are more active and healthy than non-tourists, from a study comparing health perceptions amongst Spanish older people. The results provide tentative conclusions of causal relationships between tourism and dimensions of physical and mental health through a Structural Equation Model.

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The article is based on an exploratory qualitative study, which shows that even if senior citizens sometimes have delicate health, they also know how to manage this so as to obtain optimal benefits from their travels.

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.

Education can be the first step towards sustainable tourism. This article discusses the use of age simulation suits to educate university students majoring in nautical tourism. The research goal was to verify whether using such suits in the process can sensitize students to problems that may be faced by the elderly in marinas.

Main goal of the research is to present a three-stage model of designing and evaluating tourism experiences in senior mobility, named as the OEC Model. The results of stage one and three of the model considered as a more integrated approach on designing and evaluating senior tourism experiences are presented. The 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).

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.