Tourism and Demography

Ian Yeoman, Cathy Hsu, Karen Smith, Sandra Watson, Ian Yeoman, Cathy Hsu, Karen Smith, Sandra Watson, Ian Yeoman, Cathy Hsu, Karen Smith

• Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781906884154
• eBook ISBN: 9781906884864
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

Changes in demography are more certain than climate change, technology and oil, and will have huge implications on the tourism industry. This book investigates the dimensions of demography in order to demonstrate how tourism is changing now and the future

Table of contents

• Contents
•  1 Tourism and Demography: An overview
•  2 Tomorrow’s Tourists: The Implications of Demo-graphic Change for Tourism Attitudes and Behaviours
•  3 An Ageing Population and Changing Family Structures
•  4 Families in Nature Tourism: Trends in Holiday Locations and Activities
•  5 VFR Travellers of the Future
•  6 Generation Y and Travel Futures
•  7 Gap Year Travel Alternatives: Generation Y, Volunteer Tourism and Global Citizenship
•  8 What Does Generation Y Want from Conferences and Incentive Programmes? Implications for the Business Tourism Industry
•  9 US Tourism: Arizona at the leading edge
• 10 Micronesian Islands: Adapting to Change
• 11 ‘It’s the people you know’: The Collection and Analysis of Demographic Data by Tourism Managers and Marketers
• 12 Demographic Changes and the Labour Market in the International Tourism Industry
• 13 Asian Tourism and Management Landscapes
• 14 The Development of Cognitive Maps of Tourism and Demography: Contributions, Themes and Further Research
• Figure 1.1: Average annual age of populations change for the world and the major development groups 1950–205 0 (medium variant )
• Figure 1.2: Number of countries where fertility is less than 2.1
• Figure 1.3: Maintaining functional capacity over the course of life
• Figure 1.4: Projection of potential replacement ratio in 2050 at normal retirement age (as % of final salary; selected OECD countries)
• Figure 1.5: Outbound expenditure in billions of US dollars
• Figure 1.6: Health, long-term care: projected rise in age-related public spending
• Figure 2.1: Proportion of the public who agree that ‘reducing the importance of work in our lives’ would be a ‘good thing’
• Figure 2.2: Importance of leisure in life, by GDP per capita
• Figure 2.3: Average level of satisfaction with the household financial situation (where 1 is not at all satisfied and 10 is extremely satisfied)
• Figure 2.4: Membership of environmental NGOs
• Figure 2.5: Willingness to ‘give part of one’s income’ to protect the environment’
• Figure 2.6: Support for increasing level of foreign aid, by year of birth
• Figure 2.7: Degree of international engagement , by year of birth
• Figure 2.8: ‘Trust in others’, by year of birth
• Figure 2.9: Proportion seeing themselves as ‘global citizens’, by year of birth
• Figure 4.1: Activities that motivate destination choice
• Figure 4.2: Importance of features in decision to visit Cairns
• Table 5.1: Size of VFR travel parties staying with residents
• Table 6.1: Summary of suggested defining events and distinguishing characteristics of Generation Y
• Table 6.2: Key themes and supporting evidence from Generation Y and travel research
• Table 6.3: Main concerns about the future
• Table 9.2: US CensuspPopulation projections by ethnic group
• Table 10.1: Japanese population (actual and forecasts) by age cohort (000s)
• Table 10.2: Amount and composition of savings and liabilities by age group of household head in Japan (workers’ households) (million yen; 2008)
• Table 10.3: CNMI minimum wage schedule