Aspects Of The Youth Travel Demand

Abstract

Youth travel represents an important and booming component of the tourism market. Its evolution is largely connected to the general dynamic of tourism, and, at the same time, it also records its own trends generated by the action of specific factors. This paper presents a characterization of youth travel in terms of the size and structure of the specific demand in order to accurately and scientifically assess the tourism phenomenon from the perspective of its own features and of the future directions of development at European and international levels. In the second part of the paper, we identified and characterized the forms taken by youth travel, determined by the extremely varied motivations of youth. Among the best known may be listed the following: educational tourism, volunteer programs, "work and travel" programs, cultural exchanges, sports and adventure tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]