TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Virtual reality technologies have given rise to a new breed of space travel, enabling touring of cosmic environments without leaving the Earth. These tours democratize participation in space tourism and expand its itineraries – reproducing while also altering the practices of tourism itself. The chapter explores the ways in which they alter modes of establishing “authentic” tourism destinations and experiences, rendering outer space into a stage for the performance of space travel, while themselves facilitating novel avenues for its social organization and technological assertion. Virtual space tourism not only reflects the progression and metamorphoses in tourist practice and production but also has the potential to influence both the aspirations and prospects of our space futures.
VL  - 25
SN  - 978-1-78973-495-9, 978-1-78973-496-6/1571-5043
DO  - 10.1108/S1571-504320190000025007
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320190000025007
AU  - Damjanov Katarina
AU  - Crouch David
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Virtual Reality and Space Tourism
T2  - Space Tourism
T3  - Tourism Social Science Series
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 117
EP  - 137
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -