Sustainable Tourism as a Way of Elderly Active Life Expectancy
| Parent link: | The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences (EpSBS) Vol. 19 : Lifelong Wellbeing in the World (WELLSO 2016).— 2017.— [P. 430-437] |
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| Summary: | Title screen The absolute number of people all over the world aged 60 and older is expected to increase during the period from 2000 to 2050 from 605 million to 2 billion people. International organizations and institutions set as the task not only the increase in life expectancy but also active aging. In this paper, the authors try to prove that the development of sustainable tourism is one of the possibilities to help of prolonging the active life of the older generation. The paper analyses the sustainable tourism and successful aging concepts. The study concludes that the sustainable tourism is a way of improve the active life expectancy. The research concludes that tourist activity of the elderly is one of the main factors of the successful aging. Pursuit of activities is uncharacteristic for noninvolved in social activity elderly people. The paper analyses the several tourism products that are currently offered in Spain, in some cases specifically for the elderly, and under a sustainable tourism approach. Conducted analysis indicates that the level of subjective well-being of the elderly is increasing as the result of participation in sustainable tourism products. |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.01.58 http://earchive.tpu.ru/handle/11683/37279 |
| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| KOHA link: | https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=653405 |