Selected Conditions Of The Senior Tourism Functioning On The Example Of Lower Silesia
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This article presents selected conditions of senior tourism on the basis of a study carried out amongst a group of Wroclaw seniors. The theoretical introduction defines key tourism functions, with particular emphasis on the educational, cognitive, and social ones. Both senior group and senior tourism were defined in the context of their participants, motivations, needs, season, etc. The empirical part presents the group of seniors who underwent the tests. The majority of participants were aged 60–79 years. The authors indicated the preferred forms of tourist recreation, and characterised the main motivations, stressing the influence of professional doctors in ways of traveling, length of the journey itself, and major goals. Attention was drawn to the economic situation of seniors and their personal judgment about the influences of recreational activity on their health conditions.
senior tourism; tourist functions; travel; tourist motivations; health conditions
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