Exploring the Travel Needs of Older Adults in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Huang, Gao-Yu, 黃高育
• Other Authors: Lin, Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mq8dh6

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 管理學院經營管理碩士學位學程碩士在職專班 === 105 === As a result of trends including an increase in the elderly population, declining birth rates, and changes in lifestyle. Leisure and travel become important issue for the older adults in Taiwan. This study explores Taiwan older people travel industry in depth to understand the connotations, dimensions, and types of the travel needs of the older adults. By using in-depth interview to collect data, and in total 14 older adults participated in this study. The result shows that the four dimensions of travel needs ranging from concern, fear, problem to interest, which including 19 types of travel need.