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Emerging Tourism “not for all”

In the earliest times, people have travelled on foot for food, water, safety or trade as their early travel motivations,
till the invention of wheel in 3500 B.C., sailing new modes of travel. The development of modern travel and
tourism industry increased after World War 2. Global tourism has been improving since 19th century, when
Thomas Cook, in 1841, began running a special excursion train from Leicester to Loughborough in England,
becoming world's first ever 'Trip Organizer'. Leisure tourism took hold after industrialization in Europe and
introduction of bank Holidays in 1930s. Between 20th and 21st century, travel business changed due to
advancement in airplane technology, communication technology such as internet, computerized reservation
system (CRS) and Global Distribution System (GDS). Modern technology played an important role in
transforming tourism. As a consequence, it gave more spare time, intensified communication and effective
approaches to various arenas of travel. The latest arena of this $8 billion industry is the area of Zero Gravity and
Infinite Adventure i.e. the Space and its Tour. Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business
purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including Orbital, Suborbital and Lunar Space
Tourism. The Orbital space tourism refers to visiting the orbital space of a celestial body in a spacecraft placed
in its trajectory. The Lunar tourism means to fly on a circumlunar trajectory around the moon. It would be
possible around some 2023 and 2043 as told by SpaceX, a private aerospace manufacturer and space
transportation company, founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2002 and headquartered at Hawthorne,
California, with the goal of Colonization of Mars.
To date, orbital space tourism has been performed only by Russian Space Agency. Work also continues towards
developing suborbital space tourism vehicles, being done by Aerospace companies like Blue Virgin and Virgin
Galactic. In 2018, Space X announced sending to Free return trajectory to Moon on upper stage of their BFS (Big
Falcon spaceship) rocket.
During the period from 2001 to 2009, publicized price of flights brokered by Space Adventures to International
Space Station aboard a Russian space craft 'Soyuz' was in range from US$ 20 to 40 million and spacecrafts made
8 space flights during that time. By 200, space tourism was thought to be one of the earliest markets in the world
emerging from commercial spaceflight. Federal Space Agency of Russian Federation and Rocket And Space
Corporation, Energia facilitated flights for all of world's first private space explorers.
As of 2018-19, no Suborbital Space Tourism has yet occurred. Most are proposing vehicles to make suborbital
flights peaking at an altitude of 100-160 km. Passengers would feel 3-6 minutes weightlessness, a view of
twinkle free starfield and a vista of curved earth below. Projected cost is expected to be about $200,000 per
passenger.
Some of the projects successfully carried out in this amazing adventure include the Scaled Composites won the
$10 million X Prize in October 2004 with Space Ship One, as first company to surpass an altitude of 100 km (62
mi) twice within two weeks. The first flight was flown by Michael Melvill in June 2004, to a height of 100 km,
making him the first commercial astronaut. At the end of 1990s, Mir Corp, a private space adventure began
seeking potential space tourists. Dennis Tito, an American businessman and former JPL scientist, became their
first candidate. Dennis visited International Space Station (ISS) for 7 days, becoming world's first”free paying”
space tourist. Tito was followed in April 2002 by South African Mark Shuttleworth.
There are definitely a number of striving researches, still in progress such as the Boeing is building CST-100
Starliner capsule as a part of NASA's CCDev program. Bigelow Aerospace plans to extend their success by
launching the BB330, an expandable habitation module with 330 cc of internal space, aboard a Vulcan Rocket.
Barron Hilton, CEO, Hilton Hotels, stated recently about his plan for hotel in space including ORBITAL
HILTON and LUNAR HILTON. The Orbital Hilton would move freely around space, orbiting earth whereas
Lunar Hilton would be situated on moon. SpaceX's founder Elon Musk announced Japanese billionaire Yusaku
Maezawa as company's first “lunar tourist” under the# dear Moon project.

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