Aging societies are one of the major problems faced in the modern world. Promoting subjective wellbeing is a key component in helping individuals positively accept and adapt to psychological and physical changes during their aging process. Tourism is one of the activities that have been demonstrated to promote subjective wellbeing. However, motivation for tourism and its benefits to subjective wellbeing among the older adults have rarely been discussed. The current study aimed to investigate whether tourism contributes to the subjective wellbeing of older adults. We examined the relationships between travel frequency, subjective wellbeing, and the personal trait of curiosity, mediated by the factor of family budget situation. The results demonstrated that diverse curiosity motivates individuals to travel; thus, diverse curiosity positively correlates to subjective wellbeing, both directly as well as indirectly through travel frequency. However, this relationship is limited by the factor of family budget, with tourism contributing to the subjective wellbeing of only well-off older adults. This study concludes that tourism has potential to contribute to subjective wellbeing during later stages of life.

老龄化社会是现代世界面临的主要问题之一。促进主观幸福感是帮助个人在衰老过程中积极接受并适应心理和身体变化的关键组成部分。旅游业是已证明能促进主观幸福感的活动之一。但是，很少讨论老年人的旅游动机及其对主观幸福感的好处。当前的研究旨在调查旅游业是否有助于老年人的主观幸福感。我们研究了旅行频率，主观幸福感和好奇心的个人特征之间的关系，这些关系是由家庭预算状况的因素所介导的。结果表明，好奇心促使人们旅行。因此，好奇心的多样性直接或间接地通过旅行频率与主观幸福感呈正相关。但是，这种关系受到家庭预算因素的限制，而旅游业仅对小康老年人的主观幸福感做出了贡献。这项研究得出的结论是，旅游业在生活的后期阶段具有促进主观幸福感的潜力。