What Motivates Elderly

The purpose of this study is to understand what motivates elderly tourist and elderly tourist with physical, visual, and hearing disabilities (EwPVH) when selecting hotel accommodation and what constraints factors prevent them from their decision. The understanding of how potential elderly and elderly with disabilities behaviour, is the basic foundation for the analysis and prediction of their choices to hotel selection.

Motivation is the only element which explains tourist impelling and compelling forces behind all behaviours ( Baloglu & Uysal, 1996; Crompton, 1979). Motives play the central role in the stimulus-cognition-response model of human behaviour (Iso-Ahola, 1982). Therefore, identifying motives behind elderly's mind is a key issue

Most of the push factors are intrinsic motivators, such as the desire for escape, relaxation, prestige, and social interaction. Pull factors are those that emerge as a result of the attractiveness of a destination, which includes both tangible resources and travellers' perceptions and expectations, such as novelty, and benefit expectation ( Uysal & Jurowski, 1994). Traditionally, push factors have been thought useful for explaining the desire to select while pull factors have been thought useful for explaining the choice of what to select (Crompton, 1979). In this framework, pull-factors are interchangeable with hotel attributes and push-factors, refer to the elderly and EwPVH disabilities as a subject and deal with those factors driving them to select hotel accommodation as Dann (1977) argued. Further, push factors deal with tourist motivation itself and pull factors represent the specific attractions of the destination (Chien et al., 2012). In other words, push and pull factors are related to two separate decisions made at two separate points in time, one focusing on whether to select hotels, the other on which hotel to select

(Jang and Wu (2006). Climate condition, additional leisure offerings such as events and festivals, places of historical/artistic interest and attractions and natural landscapes and discounts offered by large chain hotels (Chen & Gassner, 2012; Huang & Tsai, 2003; Jang and Wu., 2006; Li et al., 2013; Prayag, 2012; Sangpikul, 2008) may influence elderly to select hotel accommodations. Staff attitudes (Carder & Albayrak, 2014; Callan and Bowman, 2000; Wei et al, 1999) room amenities (Ananth et al.,1992) "value for money" (Callan and Bowerman, 2000) are other factors that elderly consider. Further, push on the floor surface; extend or motorize drape pulls; widen hallways; doors with swing open; light switches and phone close to bed; and less furniture are other pull factors that elderly with disabilities seek ( Ladhari