Social tourism and senior university in Portugal: a research proposal

Resumo

This paper aims to fill a literature gap and to analyze empirically senior universities in Portugal related to the impact of experimental learning on courses offered. Focus will be given to the elderly population motivations to experiment new cultural expressions and the impact this process may have on their cognitive abilities/culture intelligence. Social tourism becomes increasingly important given the lack of elderly economic means to support travel expenses and ways to save for leisure time after retirement. Senior university and social tourism can together offer this possibility. The first part represents an introduction to the topic of social travel. The second part focuses on the major conceptual aspects – culture, experimental knowledge, cultural intelligence adapted to senior universities courses – to support and justify the hypotheses to be tested.