Opportunities for marketing travel services to new‐age elderly
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Services Marketing
- Vol. 12 (4) , 265-277
- https://doi.org/10.1108/08876049810226946
Abstract
Based on Schiffman and Sherman’s conceptual model of the new‐age elderly this article constructs a measure that identifies this segment of elderly in terms of their value orientation. The findings show that older consumers’ value orientations are an effective segmentation approach; one that is superior for partitioning the market for services like leisure travel than the traditional age‐based segmentation approach. Marketing strategy implications of the findings are also discussed.Keywords
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