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Papers & Publications : Tourism : Economics

Published:	2002
Author:	Patrick Collins
Origin:	ISTS 2002-o-5-02v
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Abstract:	Although governments have made space agencies responsible for commercialisation of space activities, their efforts are not sincere. Most importantly, although they acknowledge that passenger space travel is likely to become the largest commercial activity in space, they are delaying its development. At a time when the world economy is in a precarious condition for lack of new industries, this is imposing heavy costs on taxpayers. The paper describes these costs, and discusses the prospects for improvement whereby space activities would contribute to economic growth rather than impede it.
References:	Aviation Week and Space Technology Space News General Public Space Travel and Tourism - Volume 1 Executive Summary International Cooperation in Space: New Government and Industry Relationships Towards Space Tourism: The Challenge for British Space Policy Collaboration with Aviation: The Key to Commercialisation of Space Activities Meeting the Needs of the New Millenium: Passenger Space Travel and World Economic Growth The Cost of Governments' Monopolisation of Space Travel Space Tourism, Space Policy and Economic Policy Public Choice Economics and Space Policy: Realising Space Tourism Flight Demonstration and a Concept for Readiness of Fully Reusable Rocket Vehicles Demand for Space Tourism in America and Japan, and its Implications for Future Space Activities Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Aerospace America Acta Astronautica Space in Japan
Referred to by:	The Cost to Taxpayers of Governments' Anti-Space Tourism Policy and Prospects for Improvement Space Tourism Market Demand and the Transportation Infrastructure

Related Entries:	International Space Station European Space Agency NASDA American Institute for Astronautics and Aeronautics Space Travel and Tourism Division Space Transportation Association Space Tourism Society Dennis Tito Buzz Aldrin Sean O'Keefe Daniel Goldin Federal Aviation Administration Cosmopolis XXI Yuri Gagarin International Symposium on Space Tourism Ariane Institute for Space and Astronautical Science HTOL SSTO VTOL TSTO Japan Aeronautical Association National Aerospace Laboratory Japanese Rocket Society International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
Keywords:	Tourism:Economics