Senior Tourism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling

✍ Scribed by Simone Francescato (editor); Roberta Maierhofer (editor); Valeria Minghetti (editor); Eva-Maria Trinkaus (editor)

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Series: Aging Studies; 13
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 tackle key topics ranging from the socio-economic aspects of post-retirement travel to the representations of the traveling elderly in literature, film and media, and the influence of travel on late-life creativity.

✦ Table of Contents

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