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Space tourism: a new frontier of tourism experience

In: Handbook of Experience Science

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  • Yaozhi Zhang

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Space tourism is a nascent and fast-evolving tourism phenomenon. Despite its growth, limited tourism research has examined outer space as an academic inquiry context. This chapter focuses on this emerging tourism phenomenon by delineating the formation of various space tourism experiences and discussing potential customer perceived value in an outer space journey. It is argued in this chapter that while current space tourism products offer very limited utilitarian (functional and quality) benefits, they can provide tourists with unique eudaimonia-oriented (emotional and epistemic) value. Meanwhile, given the immense dynamics and disputes concerning the justice and sustainability of space tourism practices, the social value perceived by space tourists may be hindered. From such a customer value perspective, tourism researchers should embark on making empirical investigations concerning sustainable space tourism development and developing experience theories pertinent to space tourism.

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  • Yaozhi Zhang, 2024. "Space tourism: a new frontier of tourism experience," Chapters, in: Joseph S. Chen & Nina K. Prebensen & Muzaffer S. Uysal (ed.), Handbook of Experience Science, chapter 17, pages 237-248, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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