Improving senior tourism in the Mar Menor: an entrepreneurial viewpoint

Teruel-Sánchez, Ricardo; Peñalver, Antonio Juan Briones; Conesa, Juan Andrés Bernal; Nieto, Carmen de Nieves

doi:10.1080/13032917.2021.1999760

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“…Existing studies have not yet focused on the aggregate impacts of both negative and positive factors on senior individuals’ travel-related intentions, which this study aims to showcase. Destination marketing companies and tourism organizations should understand the market of senior tourists in greater depth (Bulut and Nazli, 2020) by considering a variety of facilitators and deterrents (Wen et al , 2020), as the latter tend to stay longer and spend more on travel than other age groups (Teruel-Sanchez et al , 2021).…”

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Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

Aggarwal

Hajra

Kukreja

2023

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Purpose To cater to the senior tourist market, it is essential to comprehend the factors motivating and deterring them from international travel post-COVID-19. This study aims to focus on senior citizens’ destination choice intentions and aims to develop a model that prioritizes positive and negative factors leading to international travel destination choices. It uses push–pull factors, perceived travel risks (PTRs) and perceived travel constraints (PTCs). Design/methodology/approach Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and fuzzy technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (Fuzzy TOPSIS) are two multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques used to identify connections between variables and determine their relative importance in the decision-making model. Findings DEMATEL found push and pull factors are “effects” while PTCs and PTRs are “causes” affecting senior citizens’ destination choices. Push factors and PTCs have a greater impact than pull factors and PTRs. Fuzzy TOPSIS highlighted “improving health and wellness” and “self-fulfillment and spirituality” as key push factors, “health safety and security quotient” as the most important pull factor, and “interpersonal constraints” as the most critical PTC. Finally, “health risks” is the top PTR. Originality/value This paper adds to the tourism literature by looking at the relationship between senior tourists’ motivation, PTRs and PTCs and showing how the subfactors affect their choice of destination rank. The data analysis techniques used in this study are also novel, having never been used before in senior tourism research. Finally, even though there is a lot of research on senior tourism, not much is known about how Indian senior tourists act. In light of this study’s findings, practical recommendations were offered to tourism stakeholders worldwide, interested in tapping into the market of Indian outbound senior tourists or repositioning product or destination offerings to take this promising market or similar markets into account.

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Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

Aggarwal

Hajra

Kukreja

2023

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Circular Economy Model for Elderly Tourism Operation Based on Multi-source Heterogeneous Data Integration

Zhang

2023

Applied Artificial Intelligence

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Türki̇ye’de Üçüncü Yaş Turi̇zmi̇ne Yöneli̇k Gi̇ri̇şi̇mci̇li̇k Firsatlari Ve Zorluklar

KILIÇ

2024

Uluslararası İktisadi Ve İdari İncelemeler Dergisi

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Dünya çapında değişmekte olan demografik yapı, üçüncü yaş grubuna yönelik ürün ve hizmetlere olan gereksinimi artırmıştır. Bu gereksinimler turizm de dâhil olmak üzere faklı sektörler için önemli iş fırsatlarını beraberinde getirmiştir. Bu doğrultuda çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye’de üçüncü yaş turizminde girişimcilik fırsatlarının ve zorluklarının neler olduğunun anlaşılmasıdır. Araştırmada nitel yöntem ve durum çalışması deseni kullanılmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında Mayıs ve Haziran 2023 aylarında Antalya’da otel, seyahat acentası, hastane, bakım evi, STK alanlarında faaliyet gösteren 27 sektör yetkilisinden yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ile veri toplanmıştır. Araştırma soruları doğrultusunda temalar oluşturulmuş ardından kod ve kategoriler ilgili temalar altında değerlendirilmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda, Türkiye’de üçüncü yaş turizmine yönelik dikkate değer girişim fırsatlarının olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Üçüncü yaş grubunun ihtiyaç ve taleplerinin çeşitliliği, turizm sektöründe birçok farklı alanda entegrasyon ve koordineli çalışma gerekliliğini ortaya çıkarmıştır. Araştırma sonuçları doğrultusunda gelecekteki akademik çalışmalar, sektör ve politika düzenlemelerine yönelik öneriler sunulmuştur.

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Improving senior tourism in the Mar Menor: an entrepreneurial viewpoint

Cited by 3 publications

References 43 publications

Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

Senior tourism: travel motivators and perceived constraints and risks for the elderly

Circular Economy Model for Elderly Tourism Operation Based on Multi-source Heterogeneous Data Integration

Türki̇ye’de Üçüncü Yaş Turi̇zmi̇ne Yöneli̇k Gi̇ri̇şi̇mci̇li̇k Firsatlari Ve Zorluklar

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