Space tourism

Space Tourism Use of space environments for leisure activities such as short- and long-term trips in orbit around Earth, as well as vacations aboard spacecraft or in human settlements on planetary bodies. 

Space Tourism. Since 2001, a handful of wealthy, private individuals have traveled into space as tourists, all of them aboard Russian spacecraft. Willing to... 

Industry and Business Sectors. Private industry, particularly in the United States, has always been involved in space science, particularly aerospace companies that designed and built components for spacecraft and satellites. In the 1980 s and 1990 s, however, companies began to build complete satellites, not just components, and private companies have begun building rockets to launch satellites for customers. As space travel became easier, the space tourism industry arose to offer wealthy individuals a chance to travel into space. The interest of the private sector in space has greatly increased the degree to which space has been exploited for human use. 

The emancipatory-regulatory dimension classifies the space along a continuum which, at the emancipatory end, emphasises new and revolutionary initiatives in tourism system thinking. Studies at the other regulatory pole effectively preserve power relations and promote efficient business practices. 

The interpretive-functional dimension classifies the space according to studies which, at the interpretive pole, are qualitative, emic and directed at a subjective understanding of tourism. Analyses at the functional end are quantitative, etic in character, and seek generalisations from empirical relationships. 

The macro-micro dimension organises the space according to the scale of tourism being considered, with the macro pole referring to studies of large systems and whole regions. By way of contrast, the micro scale applies to sites as well as to more individual and small group analyses. 

Figure 8.2 shows how the disciplines considered have been employed in tourism. But it is certainly not meant to be suggested in Figure 8.2 that all psychology, for example, contributes to the space to which it is allocated in the figure rather it is the kind of psychology that has appeared in tourism study that is being depicted. 

Intelligent eclecticism, then, lies neither in denigrating specific realms of the tourism space nor in simply tolerating all research styles. Instead, it sees the contribution of approaches as multi-faceted and capable of being interconnected in myriad ways to tackle diverse problems. For example, if a... 

Social Engineering retirement communities, elite residences, restricted tourism/recreation spaces, marginalized immigrant populations, indigenous groups (Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, U.S.)... 

Mass tourism in the Caribbean region usually entails the formation of enclaves. Cancun, on Mexico s Caribbean coast, provides an excellent example of the way that tourist facilities can be truly separate, culturally, socially, and economically, from local communities. After its initial development in the 1970s as an exclusive resort for the wealthy, Cancun, referred to by locals as Gringolandia, has transformed into an overbuilt mass tourism destination (Torres Momsen, 2005 315) with far reaching social and environmental impacts. The resort was intentionally planned to separate tourist space from the areas resided in by locals, leading to obvious inequities as upscale hotels are visible from the poorly constructed shantytowns that house the resort workers. Those workers are rarely, if ever, able to use the beach along a developed coastline (Torres Momsen, 2005). 

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