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Age and cohort effects: The American senior tourism market.

This study analyzes the psychological characteristics and travel behavior of American senior leisure tourists. This study further suggests that although marketing programs geared toward the senior market need to be updated, they do not need to be radically changed over time. Marketers should also expect the average age of the senior travel market to rise, since traditionally defined “young seniors” of 55 to about 60 years should no longer be considered seniors, and they might not be interested in senior programs.

Research for TRAN Committee - Transport and tourism for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility

Mapping of accessibility across the EU Member States for three different sectors: local transport, long-distance transport, and tourism. Specific policies, research priorities and recommendations are made per state clusters and for the EU, which can enhance accessibility in each of the three sectors.

"Progress in information technology and tourism management: 20 years on and 10 years after the Internet—The state of eTourism research."

This paper reviews the published articles on eTourism in the past 20 years. Using a wide variety of sources, mainly in the tourism literature, this paper comprehensively reviews and analyses prior studies in the context of Internet applications to tourism.

Designing and evaluating tourism experiences in senior mobility.

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).

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.

Tourism business and ethnic categories in a Mexican Town.

This paper presents data from a Baja California tourist resort to show that natives hold two kinds of ethnic stereotypes of tourists. “General” stereotypes attribute very general traits to persons and are used to explain the observed behavior of tourists. The unrelated “specific” stereotypes provide precise descriptions of what tourists want and how they act in business situations: they are used as guides to conducting business with tourists. Both kinds of stereotype are based on ideas learned from others or created anew from observations. Both are tested by observation or experiment.