Conceptualizing Senior Tourism Behaviour: A Life Events Approach

IF 2.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2019-03-19 DOI:10.1177/1468797619832318

Dominik Huber, S. Milne, Kenneth F. Hyde

引用次数: 8

Abstract

This article utilizes the context of senior tourism to conceptualize life events and their impacts on tourism behaviour. Life events are markers in the individual life course that can be used to explain the formation of travel patterns. This study adopts a qualitative biographical research methodology to explore the life trajectories and related tourism behaviours of 23 senior citizens in Freising, Germany, to gain an in-depth understanding of how and why tourism behaviour changes across the individual life course. Life events can have a strong impact on tourism behaviour; they can interrupt existing travel patterns or prompt new ones. Life events and their theoretical underpinnings form a largely untouched field in the domain of tourism and represent an area worthy of more extensive research. A better understanding of life events as they relate to tourism behaviours presents opportunities for the tourism industry to develop and design custom-tailored products and services.

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老年旅游行为概念化：一种生活事件方法

本文利用老年旅游的背景来概念化生活事件及其对旅游行为的影响。生活事件是个人生活过程中的标志，可以用来解释旅行模式的形成。本研究采用定性传记研究方法，探讨了德国弗赖辛23名老年人的生活轨迹和相关旅游行为，以深入了解旅游行为在个人生活过程中的变化方式和原因。生活事件会对旅游行为产生强烈影响；它们可以中断现有的旅行模式或提示新的旅行模式。生活事件及其理论基础在旅游领域形成了一个基本上未受影响的领域，是一个值得更广泛研究的领域。更好地了解与旅游行为相关的生活事件，为旅游业开发和设计定制产品和服务提供了机会。

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来源期刊

Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

4.20%

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.