This observation agrees with Shoemaker’s study (Shoemaker, 2000) where the researcher revealed similarities between travel motivations’ clusters derived in 1996 with the clusters derived ten years earlier in 1986 at the same location (Shoemaker, 1989).
However, senior travelers behave today differently from what we used to call “older travelers” (Davies, 2005; Stewart, 2005). As they already experienced travel when they were younger – which was not the case of the previous older travelers – one may assume that seniors would have different preferences for travel (Oppermann, 1995). Hence, the debate is still opened, and needs current senior travel motives profiles to reach a satisfying answer.