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Publication date: 12 December 2019

Space tourism-past to future : a perspective article

Erik Cohen and Samuel Spector

This paper aims to briefly review the history and future expectations for space tourism.

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This paper aims to briefly review the history and future expectations for space tourism.

Design/methodology/approach

Historical review.

Findings

After a series of successes in space travel, culminating by the Apollo 11 Moon landings in 1969, governmental efforts at space travel stalled. In the early twenty-first century, private entrepreneurs inspired new life into space travel and tourism, offering commercial suborbital trips, but none have as yet actually taken place. However, despite impediments, a significant expansion of space travel and tourism is expected to occur in the course of the twenty-first century.

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The paper offers a synoptic view of past and projected future developments in space travel and tourism.

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Tourism Review, vol. 75 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-03-2019-0083
ISSN: 1660-5373

Keywords

  • Future
  • Space Race
  • 75th Anniversary issue
  • Space Tourism
  • Space travel
  • Near-Earth suborbital

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Publication date: 12 June 2019

Posthumanism and tourism

Erik Cohen

This study aims to raises the question of the potential impact of posthumanism, a stream in contemporary postmodernist philosophy, on current tourism practices and tourism…

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This study aims to raises the question of the potential impact of posthumanism, a stream in contemporary postmodernist philosophy, on current tourism practices and tourism studies. The author discusses its denial of some basic positions of enlightenment humanism: human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism and transcendentalism. The author then seeks to infer the implications of posthumanist thought for the basic concepts and categorical distinctions on which modern tourism and modernist tourist studies are based.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper raises the question of the potential impact of posthumanism, a stream in contemporary postmodernist philosophy, on current tourism practices and tourism studies. The author discusses its denial of some basic positions of Enlightenment humanism: human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism and transcendentalism. The author then seeks to infer the implications of posthumanist thought for the basic concepts and categorical distinctions on which modern tourism and modernist tourist studies are based. This paper raises the question of the potential impact of posthumanism, a stream in contemporary postmodernist philosophy, on current tourism practices and tourism studies. The author discusses its denial of some basic positions of Enlightenment humanism: human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism and transcendentalism. The author then seeks to infer the implications of posthumanist thought for the basic concepts and categorical distinctions on which modern tourism and modernist tourist studies are based. The author then discusses some inconsistencies in posthumanist philosophy, which stand in the way of its applicability to touristic practices, and end up with an appraisal of the significance of posthumanism for tourism studies.

Findings

The author pays specific attention to the implications of the effort of posthumanism to erase the human-animal divide for tourist-animal interaction, and of the possible impact of the adoption of posthumanist practices on the tourist industry and the ecological balance of wilderness areas. The author then discusses some inconsistencies in posthumanist philosophy, which stand in the way of its applicability to touristic practices, and end up with a brief appraisal of the significance of posthumanism for tourism studies.

Originality/value

This is the first attempt to confront tourism studies with the radical implications of posthumanist thought. It will hopefully open a new line of discourse in the field.

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Tourism Review, vol. 74 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-06-2018-0089
ISSN: 1660-5373

Keywords

  • Anthropocentrism
  • Posthumanism

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Publication date: 6 September 2019

About the Contributors

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Space Tourism
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320190000025011
ISBN: 978-1-78973-495-9

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Publication date: 1 April 1976

The impacts of tourism and recreational facility development

Jack L. Knetsch and Turgut Var

The impact of tourism on local economies has long been a concern of individual communities and of governmental agencies interested in promoting this source of local…

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The impact of tourism on local economies has long been a concern of individual communities and of governmental agencies interested in promoting this source of local income. The magnitudes are often large and, with fluctuations, continue to increase. The development of recreational opportunities and tourist facilities is often viewed as a means of redressing disparities in regional incomes and employment, and as a major factor in national balance of payments. Indeed, some nations seem to practice a new mercantile policy of maximizing receipts from foreign tourists and minimizing the expenditures of its own nationals abroad (Barucci, 1976).

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The Tourist Review, vol. 31 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb057736
ISSN: 0251-3102

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Publication date: 6 September 2019

Introduction: The Dawn of a New Era?

Erik Cohen and Sam Spector

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Space Tourism
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320190000025001
ISBN: 978-1-78973-495-9

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Publication date: 7 September 2018

Backpacking’s future and its drifter past

Michael O’ Regan

The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the backpacker label by reconstructing it using the historical antecedent of drifting. Following the deconstruction of…

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The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the backpacker label by reconstructing it using the historical antecedent of drifting. Following the deconstruction of backpacking’s near past, the author build a clearer conceptual foundation for backpacking’s future.

Design/methodology/approach

The study is framed by scenario planning, which demands a critical review of the backpacking and an appreciation of its history in order to understand its future.

Findings

Backpacking, ever evolving, remains difficult to articulate and challenges researchers to “keep up” with its complexity and heterogeneity. This paper argues that researchers must learn more about how backpacking “works” by opening a dialogue with its past, before engaging in further research. The paper finds that a poor conceptualisation of backpacking has led to a codification of backpacker criteria.

Practical implications

Backpacking remains a research topic which draws disparate researchers using criteria that produces disparate results and deviations. By understanding its past, researchers will be better placed to explore the emancipatory impulses that drive backpackers today and in the future.

Originality/value

This papers’ value lies in the retrospection process which explores backpacking’s near past so as to “make sense” of present research and present scenarios for it is the immediate future. The paper re-anchors backpacking by investigating the major historical, social and cultural events leading up to its emergence.

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Journal of Tourism Futures, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JTF-04-2018-0019
ISSN: 2055-5911

Keywords

  • Scenario planning
  • Backpackers
  • Backpacking
  • Drifting
  • Tourism futures
  • Tourism history

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Publication date: 6 September 2019

Conclusion: Space Travel: The Perilous Promise

Sam Spector and Erik Cohen

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Space Tourism
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320190000025024
ISBN: 978-1-78973-495-9

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Publication date: 6 September 2019

Extraterrestrial Life, Stellar Civilizations, and Aliens

Erik Cohen

Three myths of life on other celestial bodies are examined as potential motivators for space tourism. The historical myth of extraterrestrial planetary life was debunked…

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Three myths of life on other celestial bodies are examined as potential motivators for space tourism. The historical myth of extraterrestrial planetary life was debunked by modern astronomy. The twentieth-century myth-like belief in the existence of stellar civilizations or extraterrestrial intelligence has engendered an extensive search for transmitted signals from such civilizations, but none have yet been detected. The post-modern myth of aliens visiting the Earth by unidentified flying objects, engendered new religious movements; however, it is silent about the aliens’ stellar origins, while the new religions do not encourage adherents to visit the aliens’ abodes. In the final analysis, none of the three myths offers an incentive for space travel and tourism.

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Space Tourism
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320190000025004
ISBN: 978-1-78973-495-9

Keywords

  • cosmic myths
  • disenchantment
  • SETI
  • UFO religions
  • space tourism motivation

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Book part
Publication date: 23 July 2015

Tourism Social Science Series

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Tourism Research Frontiers: Beyond the Boundaries of Knowledge
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320150000020019
ISBN: 978-1-78350-993-5

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Publication date: 6 June 2016

Tourism Social Science Series

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Social Conflict and Harmony: Tourism in China’s Multi-Ethnic Communities
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320150000023014
ISBN: 978-1-78441-356-9

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