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The Effects of Senior Tourists’ Characteristics on Travel Motivation

  • Ana Isabel Moniz
  • Teresa MedeirosEmail author
  • Osvaldo Silva
  • Joaquim Ferreira
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Abstract

Despite the importance of the relationship between the sociodemo-graphic characteristics of senior tourists and travel motivation, research about senior consumer behavior intentions remains scarce. The purpose of this re-search is to outline the travel motivations of senior tourists and to investigate which sociodemographic characteristics are important in explaining these moti-vations. With 537 valid surveys from senior tourists visiting the Azores islands, a three-factor solution was found from 17 travel motivation attributes. The re-sults show that “Well-being and self-knowledge” depends on nationality, per-ception of income and perception of health status; “Knowledge about destina-tion and personal learning” depends on nationality and age group; and “Socia-bility and fun” depends on age group.

Keywords

Senior Tourist Motivation Scale Travel Push Factors Pull Factors 
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Acknowledgements

This study was funded under the research project “TuSénior 55+” - Senior Tourism and Well-being in the Azores: Creation of a Cultural Product” by the program PO2020 Azores and by the Regional Government of the Azores, under the reference ACORES-01- 0145-FEDER-00002 TuSénior 55+.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.CEEAplA, Universidade dos AçoresPonta DelgadaPortugal
  2. 2.IPCDSH da Universidade de Coimbra, Universidade dos AçoresPonta DelgadaPortugal
  3. 3.CICS.UAc/CICS, NOVA.UAc, Universidade dos AçoresPonta DelgadaPortugal
  4. 4.IPCDSH da Universidade de Coimbra, Universidade de CoimbraCoimbraPortugal

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