Abstract:
Retirement tourism has attracted attention from countries whose taking benefits from
this global issue on demographic changes. The size of civil servants in Indonesia is continuously
growing and predominated with baby boomer generation, therefore researcher tried to utilized
its’ benefit trough a study which aim is to investigate Indonesian civil servants lecturers within
tourism higher education perception and expectation towards retirement tourism. This study used
deductive approach with non-hierarchal method and crosstabs analysis. There are 110
participants from three different universities located in Bandung, Indonesia. The finding
generated four types of lecturers segments which are type 1 (challenger), type 2 (loner), type 3
(diplomat) and type 4 (fenceless). Afterward, results shown positive results on their perception
also varied expectation towards retirement. Finally, researcher suggests broadening the range of
sample to examine whether the finding of this research is valid for other segment of Indonesian
civil servants in general.