Senior Tourism : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling / / ed. by Eva-Maria Trinkaus, Valeria Minghetti, Roberta Maierhofer, Simone Francescato.

This volume aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between tourism studies and aging studies. It investigates the intersections of tourism and aging from a variety of perspectives that focus on the many ways in which senior tourism is socially constructed and/or individually experienced. The essays tac...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Aging Studies ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (210 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editors' Introduction
  • New Options for Senior Tourism
  • "Almost Fatally Disoriented"
  • "A Man Should Be Able to Take a Trip if He Wants"
  • (Un)Comfortably Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: Life as Travel
  • Senior Tourism and Accessibility
  • Undermining Retirement as Leisure Time in Deborah Moggach's These Foolish Things and Its Film Adaptation The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • The Older You Are, the More Sustainable You Get
  • Never Too Late to Remember
  • Cruising To Be Young Again
  • Contributors