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Progress in Research on Seniors' well being in tourism: a systematic review. Tourism Managment Perspectives

Review provides a holistic understanding of seniors' well-being in tourism, delineates the current research status, then identify gaps and future avenues for research. A systematic quantitative literature review was conducted, leading to 56 eligible articles extracted for subsequent analysis.

Understanding the Value of Tourism to Seniors' Health and Positive Ageing' Int.J. Res Publ. Health

Survival analysis and cohort analysis are combined with the narrative analysis of in-depth interviews with eight convenience-sampled seniors to construct a narrative framework of seniors’ active aging tourism and its intrinsic drivers. The study found that the intrinsic framework of active aging tourism values for seniors has a three-stage continuum, an interaction, and orientation characteristics. There are six intrinsic key value drivers of tourism value and public health for seniors.

The Contribution of Vacations to Quality of Life

Study (1) presents empirical evidence for the contribution of vacations to QOL, (2) determines the extent of this contribution, and (3) investigates variation in the extent to which vacations contribute to the QOL of different people. Results indicate that vacations contribute to the QOL of the majority of people, are as important a QOL domain as Leisure and People, and that QOL means different things to different people at different points in their life, representing an individual and dynamic concept.

Tourist Roles, Gender and Age in Greece: A Study of Tourists in Greece. International Journal of Sport Management Recreation & Tourism

Concerns tourism marketing and tourist roles, gender and age differences via a representative sample of 1675 tourists The Tourist Role Preference Scale (TRPS) used. Yiannakis and Gibson’s 15 leisure tourist roles in Greece. A comparison between gender and age revealed more similarities than differences.

Hilary Metcalf; Pamela Meadows, “Second survey of employers’ policies, practices and preferences relating to age, 2010”

A report of research carried out by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) in conjunction with the TNS-BMRB on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in the UK.

Subjective assessment of seniors on the phenomenon of discrimination: Analysis against the background of the Europe 2020 Strategy implementation

This study aimed to compare objective factors increasing discrimination and subjective feelings of seniors about discrimination. Additionally, we have attempted to indicate whether the elderly is discriminated against and to what extent they report such situations.