GSI Journals Serie A: Advancements in Tourism Recreation and Sports Sciences

Yazarlar: Hilmi Rafet Yüncü

Konular:Otelcilik, Konaklama, Spor ve Turizm

Anahtar Kelimeler:Space Tourism,Tourism,Orbital

Özet: When Gagarin made his first space flight, no one could have imagined that would be turn space tourism vacation. New tourism horizons were opened when space travel for the first time took place at the beginning of the millennium. Since the story of Jules Verne “From the Earth to the Moon”, a trip to space with the purpose of tourism has become a fact in a century. Space is always a curiosity. There is a growing interest in humankind from day to day traveling to extra-terrestrial areas. In the next 50 years’ space tourism will become a type of tourism that everyone can easily join. Space tourism is explained as the participation of non-professional people to the space flight with the amount of fee. As yet Space studies have been made with military purposes. After the end of cold war space studies have been made for a contribution to community’s culture and economic development. This study provides a brief overview of the space tourism possibilities and its future.

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