Progress in space tourism studies: a systematic literature review

Zhang, Yaozhi; Wang, Leran

doi:10.1080/02508281.2020.1857522

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“…Although astro-tourism or stargazing tourism is a worldwide emerging niche market in the tourism context, the scientific literature is still incipient for providing in-depth analysis towards a thorough understanding of its motivations and planning perspectives [30,[53][54][55][56][57][58]. However, more information can be found for the sister research field of space tourism that is concerned with the study of space travelling for leisure or sky observation, and which has attracted more attention among scholars providing insights from a planning perspective [52,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65]. There is a need for information about the land product development preferences of stargazing tourists that goes beyond the conceptual aspects about the environments in which the different experiences of tourists may be developed [22], either the extra-terrestrial environment [44,45] or the terrestrial planet Earth [19][20][21]26,49,66].…”

Section: Stargazing Tourismmentioning

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Tourists’ Preferences for Stargazing Land Resources

Fernández-Hernández

Araña

Ledesma

et al. 2022

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Stargazing tourism is an expanding market niche that requires the development of territorial resources for its implementation and attraction. This paper’s objective is to investigate the preferences and willingness to pay of tourists for the development of strategic land resources for stargazing tourism activities. The field work was conducted on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands), which is promoting the territorial development of infrastructures for stargazing tourism. A random sample of 734 tourists were interviewed in person on-site in December 2019 following the methodology discrete choice experiments that enabled an estimation of tourists’ preferences and willingness to pay for the implementation of key land resources for stargazing. The data are modeled using a latent class model that allows for the consideration of heterogeneous preferences. The results show that there are three groups of tourists with different preferences for land resources of stargazing observation. These segments are respectively related to the interests in culture, active, and astronomic tourism. Those tourists in the active stargazing segment share the largest proportion of the market and favor the implementation of facilities that allow the combination of active tourism with stargazing. The results are useful for land product development and territorial strategies aimed at positioning destinations in the identified demand niches of stargazing tourism.

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Section: Stargazing Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourists’ Preferences for Stargazing Land Resources

Fernández-Hernández

Araña

Ledesma

et al. 2022

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“…Meanwhile, the number of space tourists is expected to continue to increase during the next few decades (Zhang & Wang, 2022). A current area of research is the amount of training required for safe space flight, with analogue missions being a much safer This article is protected by copyright.…”

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Addressing disaster and health risks for sustainable outer space

Harris

Duda

Kelman

et al. 2022

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Any future outer space exploration and exploitation should more fully consider disaster and health risks as part of aiming for sustainability. The advent of the socalled "New Space" race, age, or era characterised by democratisation, commercialization, militarisation, and overlapping outer space activities such as tourism presents challenges for disaster-related and health-related risks in and for outer space. Such challenges have been extensively researched for Earth, but less so for space. This article presents an overview of key aspects for addressing disaster and health risks in outer space within a wider sustainability framing. After an introduction providing background and scope, this article's next section considers some key health and disaster risks within sustainable outer space and offers insights from Earth. The following two sections apply this knowledge by focusing on how analogue missions and international legal and voluntary regimes can each be used to reduce risks and potentially make outer space healthier and safer. The findings advocate that there is a wealth of knowledge and experience about mitigating risks to health and disaster risk reduction on Earth that can inform space flight and exploration. The examples explored include the physical, legal, and regulatory aspects of the "new space" industry, which highlights the relevance of equating examples on Earth. The article concludes that expectations must be managed regarding scenarios for which response, rescue, and recovery are precluded, prompting a necessary focus on prevention and

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“…The US-Soviet rivalry in space inspired smaller countries to participate in international activity for the legal regulation of the status of space and to consider space policy as a condition for the development of their economies. Since the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, commercial space flights have become the subject of scientific interest, and the journal "Acta Astronautica" has become an important forum for scientific debate (Zhang and Wang, 2020;Pásková et al, 2021). The initially eclectic discourse has become more orderly, competing definition categories have emerged, such as astronomical tourism, which includes the observation of astronomical phenomena in particularly favorable destinations, or the classic exploring of space stations (Koshim et al, 2019) or space-related artifacts.…”

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Space Tourism - Between Competition and Cooperation of States and Non-State Entities

Bógdał-Brzezińska¹,

Wendt²

2021

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The aim of the research is an attempt to answer the question about the inevitability of cooperation between states and commercial entities as part of private-public partnership in the development of astrotourism and the challenges related to it. In the undertaken research and development of materials, the classical method of analysis of existing data information (desk research) was used. In order to indicate similarities and differences, and to achieve the objectives of the research and to verify the hypothesis, a SWOT analysis was performed. A number of safety issues in astrotourism are still unregulated. Among modern countries preferring to maintain a monopoly in space, authoritarian countries dominate, such as Russia, where every sector of space exploration, including space tourism, depends on the state. In democratic countries, private entities are largely the partners or service providers of the states. In the near future, private entities will set the direction of space tourism development. States will abandon their monopoly on regulatory and organizational powers in space exploration. However, for reasons of their own security and safety interests, they will leave themselves in control of this sector. The latter will lead to the development of public-private partnerships.

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Progress in space tourism studies: a systematic literature review

Cited by 25 publications

References 109 publications

Tourists’ Preferences for Stargazing Land Resources

Tourists’ Preferences for Stargazing Land Resources

Addressing disaster and health risks for sustainable outer space

Space Tourism - Between Competition and Cooperation of States and Non-State Entities

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