Aktywność turystyczna w późnej dorosłości i starości. Motywacja, postawy i dobrostan psychiczny

Amount of the elderly citizens is increasing rapidly. Simultaneously their habits and life possibilities are changing, many of them are getting involved into tourism (e.g. Ahn & Janke 2011; Liechty & Genoe 2013; Patterson 2007; Smith & MacKay 2013). With the phenomena of the touristic activity of seniors, many scientific analysis of the topic have occurred. Despite that this field seems to be strongly related with the psychology of human behaviour, most of researches is concentrated on marketing analyses aiming at enhancing tourism consumption (Albayrak, Caber & Bideci 2014; Williams, Rattray & Grimes 2006; Śniadek 2007). In our article we do the revive of the researches on touristic activity of seniors. We try to identify kinds of touristic activities into which elderly are involved, as well as, we analyse benefits which come for seniors from tourism. Moreover, we are paying attention to different types of researches concentrated on elderly tourism, their limits and further directions.