Word: elderhostel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food is terrible, the beds are bad, there are no televisions or radios, but, man, you just feel good!" Stearman says. The weeklong Grandparent-Grandchild Summer Camp, founded by Arthur Kornhaber, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, is one of many intergenerational programs launched in recent years. Elderhostel, which organizes learning vacations for seniors, has seen the adult enrollment in its intergenerational programs in the U.S. shoot up, from 251 in 1990 to nearly 3,300 in 1999. Stearman explains the allure: "It's a general immersion into the life of a kid. It's wonderful just to hang...
Today's seniors can be world travelers too. At Boston-based Elderhostel, a global network of educational and cultural institutions that offer 10,000 travel programs to voyagers 55 and older, participation has soared from 220 travelers in 1975 to more than 300,000 today. Spokesman Michael Frilling says clients are as old as 100, and the total number of participants could easily triple by 2020. In Chevy Chase, Md., travel agent Helena Koenig, 67, packages "Grandtravel" tours that bring together adventurous grandparents and their grandkids for trips to destinations as exotic as Kenya. "It's the most exciting travel...
They are retirees, some of them, queueing politely at the information kiosk by the escalator to the T, the husbands and wives in identical plaid pants and name tags that say "Elderhostel." The highlight of their visit will be a tour of Cambridge in the Old Town Trolley, which is actually...