Turismo na terceira idade

Abstract

This article analyses and conects the tourism with the third age, using the problematic temporal approach. It establishes in the tourism the sazonality and the impacts in the hotels and transportation areas, and in the basic infrastructure of the receptive places. It enforces the necessity to keep the retired people segment with the intention to be minimized the sazonality effects in the tourism offerings. It analyses the "old age" with the point of view of its social representativity, establishing the pleasure tourism addressed to the "old age social people" as one of the options to expand their sociability comunicability and cognitive universe. Finally, discusses the adequation of tourism packages addressed to the third age, composed of median class people in the Brazilian populational context.