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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aging Studies ; 13Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839437032
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 S4365 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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