Vacationing in space: tourism seeks 'new skies'.

Laing, Jennifer; Crouch, G. I.

doi:10.1079/9780851998633.0011

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“…Any variation from the guidelines may endanger the space tourist. Currently, basic training takes up to 1 year (van Pelt, 2005) whereas Dennis Tito (the first paying space tourist) spent 9 months training (Laing & Crouch, 2004). However, this will need to be simplified for future space tourists.…”

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“…However, others tend to believe it should be defined by the type of activity the potential tourist will embark on (Berinstein, 2002;van Pelt;. These categories can be broad such as ground-based and airbased space tourism (Lappas, 2006), or they may be more clearly defined by location, therefore limited by options, as Laing and Crouch (2004) previously highlighted. Collins (1999) suggested the activity itself will determine the type of space tourist, such as wanting to look at the earth, observe the sky, engage in low-gravity sports, observe low-gravity phenomena, swim in low-gravity or artificial-gravity pools, walk in space, spend time in low-gravity gardens, or immerse yourself in simulated exotic worlds.…”

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“…For example, a space experience could be viewed as adventure-related, ground-based, or air-based space tourism (Lappas, 2006;van Pelt, 2005). Laing and Crouch (2004) and Laing (2006) have been more specific in identifying six possible realms or categories that space tourism product offerings may fall into: virtual, terrestrial, near space, suborbital, low orbital, and high orbital. Each category has its own unique experience and, consequently, cost.…”

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Do Space Hotels Differ From Hotels on Earth? The Mystery is Solved

Strickland

2012

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

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This literature review article highlights the differences between current hotels on Earth and the expectations of space hotels in the future. Using existing literature to showcase the most likely space tourism products and services offered in the future, a gap in the literature demonstrated how space hotels may differ from hotels on Earth. It appears that space hotels will be very different from the current facilities and initially very expensive therefore limited to the wealthy and adventurous. Tourists staying in space hotels will have to be physically able, willing to undertake training prior to departure for safety and health reasons, and learn how to eat, sleep, and be comfortable in space. Space tourists will initially have to take care of themselves and be in small, cramped conditions due to the initial cost of space travel-especially when factoring in fuel. The article concludes by suggesting that this is the first stage of space hotels, which will become more cost effective with better facilities and services as more and more tourists explore space travel as an option in the future, as it is the next frontier for tourism.

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Do Space Hotels Differ From Hotels on Earth? The Mystery is Solved

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2012

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

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“…However, it is often overlooked that pursuing effective demand is bounded by existing supply needed to meet potential demand. Ten years ago recreational space travel could not yet be effectuated due to lack of supply (Laing and Crouch 2004). Zedek (1968) rightly notes that there is a 'Wohlstandsschwelle', a prosperity threshold, below which tourism is nonexistent.…”

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Is Tourism a Luxury: Can We Do Without?

Theuns¹

2014

Tourism Recreation Research

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To be able to say something sensible about the question whether or not tourism is a necessity or a form of luxury the determinants of the demand for 'recreational' travel and the characteristics of (the demand for) luxury are analyzed 1n the demand for travel attention is given to the income and price elasticity and the impact of physiological, psychological and social variables acting as push factors for the emergence of generic demand. The distinction made by Harrod (1958) between democratic wealth and oligarchic wealth is amongst others applied to identify degrees ofluxury. Further, the phenomenon of preference drift and reference drift as defined by Van Praag (cited in Pen 1984) is discussed in view of the net gains from increased income and consumption and the paper questions the rationality of the existing societal choice of work and leisure showing a strong preference for income over leisure time. It is shown that in the post World War II period a discussion on making another choice between work and leisure is a recurrent theme. The article analyzes how tourism may be affected by changes in the wider socioeconomic and political environment, such as ideas on social righteousness and income distribution, the environmental impact of travel and the possible future dictates of sustainability by investigating the degree to which tourism responds to basic needs and is considered a necessity, or conversely may be considered as a luxury that we can do without KeywOl'ds: determinants of tourism demand; income-and price-elasticity; luxury; basic needs; democratic and oligarchic wealth; income distribution, ecological environment

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“…; (4) suborbital -bringing people to sufficiently high altitudes to watch the Earth's curvature and blackness of space without leaving Earth's orbit; and (5) LEO/HEO -actual Earth orbital experiences lasting from hours to days or even weeks [7]. To extend from the above categories, a sixth category could be added as: (6) Earth-Moon orbit/interplanetary orbit -bringing people to the Moon, Mars and beyond.…”

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