Changing Trends in the Baby Boomer Travel Market: Importance of Memorable Experiences

Patterson, Ian; Sie, Lintje; Balderas-Cejudo, Adela; Rivera-Hernáez, Olga

doi:10.1080/19368623.2017.1255162

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“…Baby Boomers were nonconformist rule breakers during their early years (Lyons et al 2005 ), but have become more preoccupied with material possessions and money as they have aged (Roberts and Manolis 2000 ). They refuse to behave like stereotypical old people, but still look for memorable experiences (Patterson et al 2017 ) and keep in touch with the latest travel reports and products (Hudson 2010 ). Baby Boomers are affluent, healthy and active, better educated, IT literate and increasingly confident about using the Internet as an important source for planning their trips.…”

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Impacts of Covid-19 on travel intention for summer 2020: a trend in proximity tourism mediated by an attitude towards Covid-19

2021

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This exploratory study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the travel intention of French people ( n = 655) for holidays in summer 2020. Qualitative results show demographic and generation differences in the intention to go on vacation caused by a combination of personal uncertainties due to the pandemic, compulsory state measures and travel bans. Using PLS-SEM, quantitative results indicate that influence of perceived risks and attitude towards Covid-19 led tourists to seek out greater proximity when considering vacation travel. The findings may help tourism managers apply proximity marketing strategies using more local and digital services during global health crises. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11628-021-00450-z.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Impacts of Covid-19 on travel intention for summer 2020: a trend in proximity tourism mediated by an attitude towards Covid-19

2021

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“…While multiple motivations have been identified in the literature, Crompton (1979) suggested that seven socio-psychological, or push motives, prevail (escape, self-exploration/evaluation, relaxation, prestige, regression, enhancement of kinship relationships, and social interaction) and two cultural motives or pull motives prevail (novelty and education). Hence, multiple researchers have identified numerous other motivations for travel and have suggested that different generations are motivated differently (Lehto et al , 2008; Patterson et al , 2017).…”

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Millennials: America’s cash cow is not necessarily a herd

Migacz

Petrick

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the travel motivations, perceived benefits of travel, and the utility of travel mediums among US millennials. Design/methodology/approach In order to further examine the homogeneity of millennial travelers, millennials were put into two subgroups based on their age and annual income. Data were collected in multiple phases, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches. Findings Results revealed that several significant differences exist between the proposed millennial subgroups, labeled “young and free millennials” and “professional millennials.” Research limitations/implications Implications from this study include direction for both tourism marketers and destination suppliers based on the differences and perceptions of both groups and suggest millennials are not a homogeneous market. Originality/value Millennials are far from being part of a homogenous cohort. Therefore, the current study sought to examine differences in the benefits received from travel and the primary reasons to travel among distinct millennial segments.

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“…First, there are the baby boomers; these were born between the years 1946 and 1964 (Gardiner et al, 2015;Sudbury-Riley, 2016) or 1946 and 1960 (Gurau, cited in Lissitsa and Kol, 2016); they like face-to-face social contact and some find it a bit difficult to adapt to the digital realm (Venter, 2017) , seek to feel and look good (Kumar and Lin, cited by Rahulan et al, 2015), are independent (Siren and Haustein, 2015) traditional (Davis et al, 2006), positive, brand loyal (Beauchamp and Barnes, 2015) and have considerable financial capability following the independence of their children (Rahman and Yu, 2018). They are said to have enjoyed job stability and prosperous times (Patterson et al, 2017), presumably healthier than their predecessors (Badley et al, 2015).…”

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Disruption in the consumer decision-making? Critical analysis of the consumer's decision making and its possible change by the COVID-19

Armando¹

2021

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A multidisciplinary concept of consumer science and a disruptive pandemic. How are these elements intertwined? In this sense the purpose of this article is to know how the purchase decision could be changed by the covid-19. A holistic analysis of both the psychological and economic effects of a pandemic, impacts from the generational theory, and how this could cause security to become more relevant was carried out. It was carried out a systematic review of scientific literature consulting 304 articles, being 106 the selected ones, under high impact criteria. It is presumed that consumers will make slightly more rational decisions, although this will be subject to factors inherent to specific scenarios, so it is necessary to perform multivariate empirical research

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Changing Trends in the Baby Boomer Travel Market: Importance of Memorable Experiences

Cited by 26 publications

References 41 publications

Impacts of Covid-19 on travel intention for summer 2020: a trend in proximity tourism mediated by an attitude towards Covid-19

Impacts of Covid-19 on travel intention for summer 2020: a trend in proximity tourism mediated by an attitude towards Covid-19

Millennials: America’s cash cow is not necessarily a herd

Disruption in the consumer decision-making? Critical analysis of the consumer's decision making and its possible change by the COVID-19

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