How to study tourism geography and talk about tourism pension?

As we all know, China has entered an aging society. At present, the population of elderly people over 60 in China is over 1 100 million, which is the only country in the world with an elderly population of over 100 million, and it is growing rapidly at a rate of more than 3% every year. With the aggravation of aging, people's demand for old-age care is growing day by day, so it is urgent to speed up the construction of social old-age service system. On June 20 10,165438 10, the Ministry of Civil Affairs released the draft of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for the Construction of Social Pension Service System (see February 20 165438 10)

The problem of providing for the aged with hundreds of millions of yuan can be divided into two types: one is the elderly who have state pension income, have children to take care of them, or have no children to take care of them, but are healthy and can take care of themselves, accounting for about 80%; The other category is the disabled and semi-disabled elderly who account for about 20% in urban and rural areas, especially the elderly who are lonely, entitled to special care, "three noes" and "five guarantees" and low-income elderly who live alone and are disabled. The National Plan focuses on the life care, rehabilitation care, spiritual comfort, emergency assistance and other aspects of the latter, and puts forward specific pension plans at three levels: family, society and institutions, which will not be repeated here.

Most of our retired veteran comrades belong to the former, so I want to tell them a pension plan, that is, 80% of the elderly: tourism for the elderly. Since 2007, Hunan University of Retired Veteran Cadres has opened the course of Tourism Geography, which has won the welcome and love of old comrades because of its simplicity and vivid image. The number of applicants is increasing year by year. Class one really can't sit down this year, so we have to have two classes. In class, Mr. Yang slowly tells the world famous mountains and rivers, places of interest, customs and foreign cultures, geography and customs with classic, beautiful and soft voice and language, which makes the students listen with relish and interest, and time passes unconsciously. Students not only learned a lot of knowledge about tourism geography, but also broadened the horizons of the elderly and cultivated their interest in tourism. There is laughter, entertainment and aesthetic enjoyment in the classroom. But also produced an important psychological orientation: a strong desire to travel, determined to travel as much as possible, to see the world, into the fashion tide of tourism and pension.

Tourism and old-age care are two different things, and now it seems to be "two in one"! Have you noticed that the headline of Happy Old Annual Report on April 20 12 10 published an "amazing" news:

"Old-age tourism: couples sell houses and travel around the world". It tells the story of Liu Bo and his wife in Liwan District, Guangzhou. They sold one of the two houses for retirement travel expenses and group tours around the world. He also has a house for sale in case of serious illness. They can survive: "I'm not sick in a hotel, I'm sick in a hospital."

This news also made the author have a new thought when he was surprised: how should we retired people spend our old age of "seeing the sun and being glorious for ever" with high quality?

Editor's analysis of Happy Old Man: With the development of the times, people's concept of providing for the aged is also changing. Under the current situation that traditional courtyard-style pension has become the mainstream pension mode, a new pension mode-tourism pension has appeared in people's field of vision. Its appearance broke the old idea that "the old man never moves his nest".

We old people over 60 years old, when we were young, were "desperate for revolution". Not only did we never enjoy any leisure travel, but some of us never "moved our nest"-never left the city where we lived. Now that I am retired, I have time, opportunities and certain economic conditions. As long as they are in good health, many people want to go out for a walk, study more and see more of the world. But after all, people's physical strength is poor when they are old, which is not suitable for fast-paced tourism mode. Therefore, the travel pension with slow pace, high comfort and low cost is increasingly favored by the elderly.

There are also two ways to support the elderly by traveling: one is to live in one's own home at ordinary times, the family residence is still the same, the house is locked, you can join a group or travel freely or take your children by car, and you can go sightseeing at home or abroad many times in stages. For example, take part in a special tour for the elderly in Taiwan Province Province specially organized by Huatian International Tourism Service Center for the Elderly (registered for many times, and now set off on May 16), or a slow tour in East China organized by Happy Old People (set off on March 15 for many times) and a tour in Hainan (set off on March 20th this year). According to my friends, relatives and colleagues, many old comrades have traveled once or more and visited one or more famous scenic spots at home and abroad. There are also some retired people who are making travel pension plans this year or next year!

The other is the so-called "migratory bird housing", which provides interactive support for the elderly in different places. According to relevant newspapers and periodicals in Dalian, due to the beautiful coastal environment and pleasant summer climate, Dalian has not only become a place for many young tourists to visit Range Rover, but also a destination for many elderly people to travel and support their old age. In recent years, Dalian's pension hotlines 83639110 and 836951/0 are ringing off the hook every day, and Dalian's pension tourism in different places is gradually heating up. Every summer, thousands of people come to Dalian from all over the country and even abroad to travel and support the elderly. After the weather turns cold, Dalian Social Pension Service Center can help the elderly to contact and transfer to nursing homes in southern cities such as Hainan, Shenzhen and Kunming to support the elderly in different places for the winter. It is reported that in order to meet the diversified needs of the elderly, Wuxi also began to explore the pilot "migratory bird" pension last year. Through the nationwide "information service for the aged" network, old people can go to different cities to provide for the aged every year, which can not only save a lot of money, but also realize their dream of traveling all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. It is reported that Changsha also has institutions that receive migrant birds for the elderly.

The old people who choose this kind of "migratory bird residence" for providing for the aged have a full and happy life: they not only travel, visit relatives and friends, but also have a leisure holiday, and they have to take buses, boats and planes to provide for the aged in different places, experience the feeling of taking different means of transportation, adjust their mentality, exercise their limbs and strengthen their physique. Unlike ordinary tourists, these old people live in nursing homes, not hotels. This leisure mode of supporting the elderly while traveling can get a higher level of service for the old people with less money; For local nursing homes, idle resources can be fully utilized and take the opportunity to grow and develop; For cities, it can stimulate some consumption and promote economic development, which is a "win-win" move and fully meet the physical condition and pension needs of the elderly.