Senior Tourism and Information and Communication Technologies

Abstract

Current demographic trends show that there is a growing number of older population groups, which might result in serious social and economic problems in future. Therefore national governments want to prevent them by implementing different strategies which could contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of quality of life of older people. One of the approaches to handle this issue is also traveling which can be enhanced by information and communication technologies (ICT). The purpose of this article is to explore the use of ICT by senior travelers. This is done by literature search of available studies on the research topic in the world’s databases Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Springer. The findings show that senior tourists are now more technologically savvy than they used to be two decades ago. In addition, their use of ICT reflect their confidence and independence in travelling. Nevertheless, since senior tourism is a new developing branch of tourism, much more research has to be done in this field, including the research on the use of ICT by these older travellers.