This article utilizes the context of senior tourism to conceptualize life events and their impacts on tourism behaviour. Life events are markers in the individual life course that can be used to explain the formation of travel patterns. This study adopts a qualitative biographical research methodology to explore the life trajectories and related tourism behaviours of 23 senior citizens in Freising, Germany, to gain an in-depth understanding of how and why tourism behaviour changes across the individual life course. Life events can have a strong impact on tourism behaviour; they can interrupt existing travel patterns or prompt new ones. Life events and their theoretical underpinnings form a largely untouched field in the domain of tourism and represent an area worthy of more extensive research. A better understanding of life events as they relate to tourism behaviours presents opportunities for the tourism industry to develop and design custom-tailored products and services.

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概念化高级旅游行为：一种生活事件方法

本文利用高级旅游的背景来概念化生活事件及其对旅游行为的影响。生活事件是个人生活过程中的标记，可用于解释出行方式的形成。本研究采用定性的传记研究方法，探索了德国弗赖辛市23名老年人的生活轨迹和相关的旅游行为，以深入了解旅游行为在整个人生过程中如何以及为何发生变化。生活事件可能会对旅游行为产生重大影响；他们可以中断现有的出行方式或提示新的出行方式。生活事件及其理论基础构成了旅游领域中一个基本未触及的领域，代表了一个值得更广泛研究的领域。