Quality of Life and Senior Travel Motivations and Expectations

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the perceptions of the quality of life of the older people from various parts of Slovenia shape their requirements regarding the tourism travel. This research seeks to investigate the factors that impact the mobility of older people from the perspective of tourism travel. The current research model comprises three hypotheses to explore questions whether perceptions of the quality of life, active learning, and social networking stimulates the mobility of older people through the engagement in tourism travel. Study empirically validated the impact of quality of life dimensions of older people on the tourism travel activities. Perceptions of quality of life, active learning and social networking positively predict the travel mobility of older people.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s2p590