TY - GEN
T1 - Space Tourism
T2 - International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems, ICOTTS 2023
AU - Diaz, Carlos Manuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The concept of space tourism has been discussed since the early 2000s, but it is since 2015 that this typology has gained greater momentum, leading companies like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin to conduct their first spaceflights with tourists, and soon different companies worldwide will do so at a lower cost. As an industry in full development and growth, it is necessary to identify the challenges and obstacles it may face to continue and generate a strong typology of tourism with constant demand. For this reason, interviews were conducted with different experts in space tourism, where, through the Atlas-ti tool, the four main challenges that the typology must face in the short term were identified. Keeping these challenges in mind, companies in the sector will have to confront them in the best possible way to generate a successful and continuous growth perspective. The identified challenges are as follows: Regulation of space tourism is non-existent; promotion and marketing of space travel in contrast to a world with needs; stagnation in development due to possible accidents and setbacks in the generation of experiences; the difficulty in generating cheaper prices, and increasing demand.
AB - The concept of space tourism has been discussed since the early 2000s, but it is since 2015 that this typology has gained greater momentum, leading companies like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin to conduct their first spaceflights with tourists, and soon different companies worldwide will do so at a lower cost. As an industry in full development and growth, it is necessary to identify the challenges and obstacles it may face to continue and generate a strong typology of tourism with constant demand. For this reason, interviews were conducted with different experts in space tourism, where, through the Atlas-ti tool, the four main challenges that the typology must face in the short term were identified. Keeping these challenges in mind, companies in the sector will have to confront them in the best possible way to generate a successful and continuous growth perspective. The identified challenges are as follows: Regulation of space tourism is non-existent; promotion and marketing of space travel in contrast to a world with needs; stagnation in development due to possible accidents and setbacks in the generation of experiences; the difficulty in generating cheaper prices, and increasing demand.
KW - Challenges and obstacles space tourism
KW - Growth prospects
KW - Space tourism
KW - Space tourism development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85190258160&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-9765-7_16
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-9765-7_16
M3 - Libros de Investigación
AN - SCOPUS:85190258160
SN - 9789819998838
T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
SP - 173
EP - 183
BT - Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems - Selected Papers from ICOTTS 2023
A2 - Abreu, António
A2 - Carvalho, João Vidal
A2 - Liberato, Pedro
A2 - Monroy, Hazael Cerón
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 2 November 2023 through 4 November 2023
ER -