Leisure travel and the time of later life
Authors: Day, R., Hitchings, R., Fox, E., Venn, S. and Hibbert, J.F.
Pages: 183-200
ISBN: 9783319619903
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61991-0_9
Abstract:This chapter explores the evolving demand for energy-intensive long distance leisure travel in retirement, a phenomenon which is widely predicted to be on the increase due to demographic change, rising retirement incomes and the retirement of the baby boomer generation, often labelled as the first consumer generation. We undertook serial interviews with three cohorts of people in London and Birmingham, UK, who were respectively approaching retirement, recently retired and longer retired. Drawing on interview material we discuss the different ways in which the time of retirement is imagined, experienced and consumed, and argue that understanding these different and sometimes competing temporal aspects of later life leads to a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of demand for retirement leisure travel and its potential trajectories.
Source: Scopus
Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life
Authors: Day, R., Hitchings, R., Fox, E., Venn, S. and Hibbert, J.F.
Editors: Hui, A. and Walker, G.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319619910
Abstract:This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for?
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