“…Despite the importance of pre-seniors and seniors, scholars have mainly investigated the seniors in the tourism industry by segmenting the senior group into heterogeneous groups [2,13,14], identifying their motivation and examining the relationship between motivation and its antecedent/behavior intention [5,[15][16][17][18][19], investigating the perceptions of seniors on the service features of an outbound group package tour [20] and perceptions of travel experience [21], describing the sociodemographic information and trip characteristics of the senior group [22], and others [3,4,[23][24][25][26]. Although several studies have been conducted from the hospitality perspective [8,9,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] limited focus has been given to investigating senior tourists in the hotel industry.…”