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Assumptions about later-life travel and their implications
— pushing people around? Forum article | | Author(s) | Russell Hitchings, Susan Venn, Rosie Day |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 38, no 1, January 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, January 2018 |
| Pages | pp 1-18 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Holidays ; Mobility ; Environmental control ; Consumer demand ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Taking four assumptions in turn, this review article considers some of the lenses through which researchers might look at later-life leisure travel and the implications of adopting each of them. First, the authors consider the 'active ageing' agenda and what this means for how leisure travel may be thought about in academia and beyond. Second, they turn to studies which are underpinned by worries about the appetite for significant consumption, thought to typify the 'baby-boomer' generation. They question whether these studies could inadvertently be promoting the very future that the baby boomers hope to avoid. Third, they explore how research on the benefits of everyday 'mobility' in later life may have morphed into a more general belief about the value of travel in older age. Finally, they reflect on how relevant studies of tourism are often underpinned by an argument about the financial rewards that now await those ready to target the older traveller. The overall contention is that, though for different reasons, all four could be serving to encourage more later-life travel. Whilst for some this prospect is not at all troubling, the spectre of adverse energy demand consequences leads the authors to explore a more critical view. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180105001 A |
| Classmark | BG: CC: HV: C4: RB: WYD: 64A |
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