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Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim

According to the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) study, it shows there are increasing numbers of elderly who goes to travel in the future market trend. Previously, the elderly prefer to pass their time with such as playing with grandchildren, gardening and other domestics' activities. The grow...

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Main Author: Abd Halim, Nur 'Ulya
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Travel. Voyages and travels (General)
World Wide Web. Web portals. Web site development
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/64700/1/64700.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.647002023-04-19T02:27:55Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/64700/ Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim Abd Halim, Nur 'Ulya Travel. Voyages and travels (General) World Wide Web. Web portals. Web site development According to the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) study, it shows there are increasing numbers of elderly who goes to travel in the future market trend. Previously, the elderly prefer to pass their time with such as playing with grandchildren, gardening and other domestics' activities. The growth in the use of the Internet has made the website one of the most important sources of information including to elderly. However, the website is being created targeting younger adult and average users and fail to recognized elderly as a potential group. Poorly designed websites will only turn elderly off and away from visiting again and difficulties they may have can create barriers that may seriously discourage them to use websites. Literature review analysis and interview with purposive sampling are used for data collection regarding guidelines and requirements needed to design an elderly-centred travelling website. Through this study, guidelines and requirement on elderly-centred travelling website have been identified and a functional online prototype is developed based on the guidelines and requirements have been derived. 2017 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/64700/1/64700.pdf Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim. (2017) Masters thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM).
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topic Travel. Voyages and travels (General)
World Wide Web. Web portals. Web site development
spellingShingle Travel. Voyages and travels (General)
World Wide Web. Web portals. Web site development
Abd Halim, Nur 'Ulya
Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim
description According to the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) study, it shows there are increasing numbers of elderly who goes to travel in the future market trend. Previously, the elderly prefer to pass their time with such as playing with grandchildren, gardening and other domestics' activities. The growth in the use of the Internet has made the website one of the most important sources of information including to elderly. However, the website is being created targeting younger adult and average users and fail to recognized elderly as a potential group. Poorly designed websites will only turn elderly off and away from visiting again and difficulties they may have can create barriers that may seriously discourage them to use websites. Literature review analysis and interview with purposive sampling are used for data collection regarding guidelines and requirements needed to design an elderly-centred travelling website. Through this study, guidelines and requirement on elderly-centred travelling website have been identified and a functional online prototype is developed based on the guidelines and requirements have been derived.
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title Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim
title_short Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim
title_full Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim
title_fullStr Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim
title_full_unstemmed Designing an elderly-centred travelling website / Nur 'Ulya Abd Halim
title_sort designing an elderly-centred travelling website / nur 'ulya abd halim
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