Increased Travel Frequency May Lead to Happiness and Reduce Dementia: An Analysis of the “Travel Divide” (5)
Increased Travel Frequency May Lead to Happiness and Reduce Dementia: An Analysis of the “Travel Divide” (5) In this article, we explore how increasing travel frequency among seniors could significantly reduce societal costs. Previously, according to Sony Life’s ‘Senior Living Consciousness Survey 2023,’ we discovered that many seniors wish to travel. But why do people want to travel? Research conducted by Tohoku University’s Institute of Aging Medicine and the travel giant Club Tourism indicates that frequent travelers experience increased happiness. This research involved a survey of about 835 individuals around the age of 60 who participated in Club Tourism’s tours. The study, titled “Curiosity–tourism interaction promotes subjective wellbeing among older adults in Japan,” has been published on Nature’s website. According to this study, the ‘Subjective Happiness Scale (average score)’ was 4.55 for individuals who traveled more than 10 times a year, 4.34 for those who traveled 5-9 times, 4.52 for 3-4 times, 4.13 for 1-2 times, 4.09 for those traveling only once every 2-3 years, and 4.11 for those who hardly traveled at all. Assuming the annual travel frequency of individuals who traveled more than 10 times as 10, those who traveled 5-9 times as 7, 3-4 times as 3.5,