ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to encapsulate the expansion of research on ageing by examining the interactions between ageing and the visitor economy as part of a much broader approach that connects leisure, recreation and tourism in one continuum. Further, it explores the notion of the individual life course, especially the latter stages associated with ageing, and how leisure is experienced during that period. This chapter considers one overarching question: how should we conceptualise and understand ageing? To explore this question requires an interdisciplinary perspective to be adopted, drawing from disciplines and subject areas such as sociology, leisure studies, tourism, economics, marketing, politics and health science to construct a broad conceptualisation of ageing and its interconnections with the visitor economy.
