•Life cycle determinants can be thought of as either ‘chronological age’ or ‘domestic age’. Domestic age is a powerful travel determinant. The propensity to travel is closely related to an individuals age.
•Life cycle determinants: Domestic age refers to stage in the life-cycle reached by an individual, and different stages are caracterised by distinctive holiday demand and levels of travel propensity.
Each stage of the life cycle has:
–Preoccupations; mental absorptions from motivations
–Interests; feelings of what an individual would like to do
–Activities; actions of an individual