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With the advent of an aging society, older Travel Market presents unprecedented business opportunities. Recently held in Shandong Province, "China and South Korea tourism Academic Conference," Expert Predicted that if the proportion of our elderly people can travel to developed countries, China's annual economic growth of total income will thus nearly 0.3 percentage points.
Experts, at present the country's aging population is increasing by 3% per year. Have expected that by 2030 China's aging population will reach 310 million, accounting for 20.4% of population, access to a high degree of aging stage. The advent of an aging society, but also indicates that old age will face a huge tourism development opportunities. Survey shows that tourism is now the number of elderly in China each year have accounted for 20% of the total number of tourism.
Traveling in China in 2005 the number of elderly will reach the national 25% of the total number of trips, while developed countries have more than 60%, which means the market specifically for the elderly has great potential for tourism, business opportunities.
Development of the tourism market significance of old age three points: First, in promoting the family, can stimulate domestic tourism market. When the elderly when the decision to travel, other members of the family taking into account such factors as health care for the elderly, many will choose to travel along. In the tourism area, the family three generations of peer travel more and more. Development of the tourism market can affect older middle-aged market, affected youth market, and promote effective family-style push the rapid development of domestic tourism market.
Second drop ease the contradiction between accommodation facilities utilization. The elderly stay in a general tourist destination longer, this can increase the catering industry, hotel industry, the economic benefits. Slow action, older persons, the daily Outdoor Activities short time, relatively few attractions also makes old travel period is longer, slower rhythm. This visit to the elderly to stay in a relatively long time, the relative ease as the young tourists can swim faster speed caused by the decreased utilization of accommodation facilities in the conflict, improve tourist destination restaurants, the hotel industry's economic benefits so as to drive economic growth in tourist destinations. Third, an effective balance
travel peak seasons. In contrast to travelers "holiday" of speaking, every holiday, weekend, all attractions are overcrowded, traffic-round emergency accommodation. Because the elderly have more discretionary time, old tourist presented a "non-holiday of" features. Most of the elderly likes the tranquil relaxation, they usually will not choose the Golden Week travel, weekend and summer vacation traffic and other big time, more willing to choose overly concentrated in the tourist season after the trip, to avoid the peak passenger flow. Jinan City, the elderly, based on the selected travel time of the survey analysis, 74% of the elderly choose to avoid the Golden Week, weekend, winter and summer vacations and other trips at other times larger traffic. Elimination of older tourists, tourism has become an important factor affecting the low season.
