According to the majority of the tourism industry in Thailand, this is also related
to the on-going development of tourism industry in Thailand to make the destination up to the
standard and provide the appropriate supply for all the tourist demands. Many researches are
designed in order to develop the tourism and hospitality industry in Thailand, either by the public
or private organizations. But most of the researches are focusing on the general group of
international tourists, but not many researches studied on this specific market group of senior
tourists in Thailand as a destination yet, while there were many international researches, which
studied on this interesting market as well as forecasted about the huge increasing phenomenon of
the senior market. Focusing on senior tourist arrivals in the statistic report of international tourist
arrivals (TAT, 2005), there was not a high percentage of senior tourist arrivals at either age rank
of 55-64 years or 65 years and over occurred in year 2005 which is shown in table 1.5.