Abstract

Although people with dementia have leisure travel needs, no scholars appear to have empirically explored how to meet this group’s needs as hotel guests. To bridge this research gap in tourism literature, the current study employed in-depth interviews to collect first-hand data from 15 travel-eligible tourists with early-stage dementia and 15 senior luxury hotel managers in China. Specifically, six key themes were extracted from Chinese hotel guests with dementia. Hotel managers’ commentary on meeting travel-eligible tourists with dementia’ needs during leisure travel led to three themes. Innovatively, this study further sheds light on possible contributions the tourism and hospitality industry makes to the global health field using the context of a vulnerable group–travel-eligible tourists in an ageing society.

RAS ID

64610

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2023

Volume

35

Issue

3

Funding Information

European Commission Horizon 2020 / Ministry of Education in China under Humanities and Social Sciences Grant / National Natural Science Foundation of China

School

Centre for Precision Health / School of Business and Law

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Comments

Wen, J., Zheng, D., Jiang, Y., Hou, H., Phau, I., & Wang, W. (2023). Exploring perceptions of travel-eligible individuals with dementia and hotel operators. Antolia, 35(3), 553-565. https://doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2023.2282050

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.1080/13032917.2023.2282050