Seniors are Top Consumers for Tours that Trace Family Roots

Feb. 15, 2012 - PRLog -- The Society of Certified Senior Advisors has released an article that discusses how seniors are revolutionizing vacation travel. A growing number of travel companies and genealogical experts are offering trips that focus on discovering a person’s heritage, and seniors are the first in line. Genealogical tourism is taking trips with the intent to visit places that a person’s family and ancestors came from and lived in with the goal of discovering more about the family heritage and these trips are in high demand by seniors.

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Research by a University of Illinois sport and tourism professor, Carla Santos, and graduate student Grace Yan, found that seniors are generating a lot of interest in genealogical tourism, making it one of the fastest-growing brands of tourism and representing a very conscious shift toward personal enrichment and fulfillment (Santos, 2009).

“Genealogical tourism capitalizes on this by allowing individuals to experience the sensuous charms of antiquity, and provides a way of experiencing something eternal and authentic that transcends the present,” Santos said.

Another reason for the growth in this industry is the diversity of the races, cultures, and ethnicities in the United States that have a desire to connect to their roots. According to Santos, “Individual cultural and ethnic identities exist in fragmented and discontinuous forms in the U.S. Traveling to identify with an unknown past seems to give existence to meanings and values that the individual then carries forward on into their present.”

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