Safe Senior Citizen Travel and The Aging Travel Population
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Tarlow, Peter [1]
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[1] Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: IJSSTH, ISSN-e 2250-5105, Nº. 20, 2019
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Senior citizen travel is not a new phenomenon. In fact the Book of Genesis speaks of it as early as in the Abraham stories. Chapter 12 of Genesis begins with God’s commanding Abraham with the words: “lech lchah”. An expression almost impossible to translate and loosely meaning: “Go forth for your own sake and for that of others….” Although Biblical scholars may argue about the meaning of the imperative “lech” (go) along side of the second person masculine dative pronoun, “l’chah”, tourism specialists understand that it took an act of God to get a 75-year old man to begin the difficult trek across the desert from Haran to Israel (then called Canaan). For many millennia afterwards, travel had two distinct distinctions (1) it was both arduous and dangerous and (2) the elderly traveled the least possible. Leisure travel simply was too physically trying and for all intensive purposes was reserved for the strong, the adventurous or the crazy
