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.

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.

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.