Young Consumers: Volume 19 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Lucia Cicero, Linda Osti

Grand parenting by the pool

Marie Vestergaard Mikkelsen, Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt

Holidays are often conceptualized as an opportunity for individuals to escape everyday life responsibilities, roles and relations. However, families bring with them domestic…

Grandparent’s segmentation by the tourism motivation: travelling with or without grandchildren

Mercede Shavanddasht

The purpose of this paper is to include grandparents’ characteristics, identifying who they are, revealing the differences in their motivation while taking a trip with their…

A family for the holidays: delineating the hospitality needs of European parents with young children

Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore, Giacomo delChiappa, Mona Jihyun Yang

Where tourism research related to families holidaying with young children in coastal mass tourism destination is scant, this paper aims to explore accommodation constraints and…

Analyzing children’s impact on parents’ tourist choices

Riccardo Curtale

The purpose of this study is to implement an innovative approach to analyze children’s impact on family decisions. Furthermore, a new strategy to collect children’s preferences is…

Family bliss or blitz? Parents’ and children’s mixed emotions towards family holidays

Malene Gram, Anette Therkelsen, Jacob Roesgaard Kirkegaard Larsen

This paper aims to explore mixed emotions experienced by parents and children on holiday, how they are dealt with and how they influence the way “family” is “staged” and “done”.

When kids are the last to know: embodied tensions in surprising children with family vacations

Jenna Drenten

Surprise family vacations have become increasingly prevalent in today’s digitally mediated consumer culture. Drawing on a performance-based view of tourism, this paper aims to…

Mother knows best: exploring the matrilineal influence in family tourism among Filipinos living in New Zealand

Robert Charles Capistrano, Maria Aurora Correa Bernardo

This paper aims to examine the personal meanings of hosting experiences of first-generation immigrant families, particularly Filipino mothers in New Zealand, with their visiting…