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Space Tourism: A New Frontier for Future Generations

  • Giachino, Chiara;Pucciarelli, Francesca;Bollani, Luigi;Bonadonna, Alessandro;Koo, Chulmo
    • Journal of Smart Tourism
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2021
  • Commercial space tourism is being developed and this trend is expected to continue and accelerate. Although opportunities and threats of space tourism attracted the interest of academia, literature on potential demand, attitudes and people's motivations for space tourism is scarce. In this context, this paper investigates young generations' interest and motivations towards different forms of space tourism. The cluster analysis on 2,207 respondents highlighted an interest in space tourism although motivated by different reasons, levels of budget and sustainability aspects. Interest in space tourism varies according to how far it is perceived as potential, possible or sustainable, or to people's personal feelings. The paper adds to contributions in the tourism field by investigating the opportunities space can offer this industry.

Study on Competitive Factors of Tourism Resources for Establishment of Jeju Health Tourism Model - Focusing on the Hierarchical Space Based on Medical Interference - (제주 헬스투어리즘 모델 정립을 위한 관광자원 경쟁요인 분석 - 의료간섭 기반 위계공간을 중심으로 -)

  • KIM, Hyo;JEONG, Heonkyu;KIM, Mincheol;CHOI, Yong-Bok
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.29-39
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    • 2021
  • The global aging phenomenon and new lifestyles have a worldwide attention to the new tourism form of health tourism. The purpose of this study is to analyze and suggest the competitive types of health tourism. Through the literature review, the theoretical base on the concept and type of health tourism and hierarchical spatial types such as medical space, semi-medical space, non-medical space, and natural healing space, based on medical intervention was established. A questionnaire survey was conducted for the professionals in Jeju area about tourism, health care, policy. As a result of analysis based on competitiveness advantage factors of Jeju health tourism, Jeju health tourism was confirmed to have higher importance in the natural healing space than the health service center space. Three kinds of resources such as natural resources, healing resources, and active resources of Jeju type health tourism were derived and applied to two hierarchical spaces, natural healing space and non-medical healing space, based on medical intervention.

Status of Sub-Orbital Space Tourism Business (지구 저궤도를 목표로 하는 우주여행 사업 현황)

  • Kim Kyoung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.145-152
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    • 2005
  • Worldwide there is strong interest in the field of commercial space business, especially 100km altitude sub-orbital Space Tourism. This was soared to by the two-times flight success of SpaceShipOne by Scaled Composites Inc. It reached an altitude of 100km at Oct. 4, 2004. This demonstrates a paradigm change from government-driven space challenge and exploration to commercial space business. Therefore this report provides various insights into the commercial space tourism market, such as current demand for space travel, size of the market, growth potential of the market, technology, etc.

Study of Theme-based Cultural Space According to the Changing Tourism Environment - Focus on examples of Japan and Korea to which Contents E5(Education, Entertainment, Experience, Emotion and Economy) were applied - (관광환경 변화에 따른 테마형 문화공간(TCS) 연구 - 콘텐츠 E5(교육, 위락, 체험, 감성, 산업)를 적용한 일본과 한국사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Oh, Sang-Min;Joung, Yong-Sub;Han, Young-Ho
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of present study is that according to the changing tourism environment, detailed cultural environment will be utilized in the active way as systematized theme-based cultural space, and the increase of small theme-based cultural space will contribute to active participation of customers and local development with various programs. TCS was classified to theme-based cultural space contents E5(Education, Entertainment, Experience, Emotion and Economy) in focus of contents in which software is regarded more importantly than hardware, and was analyzed as contents of ten key tourism trend of the future. The present study indicate that experience centered tourism environment stood out in theme-based cultural space, and new era of cultural tourism to which storytelling in focus of emotion is applied will be coming.

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Liability in the context of space tourism

  • Leon, Pablo Mendes De
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • no.spc
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    • pp.225-246
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    • 2007
  • This article is dedicated to my colleague and friend Professor Soon-Kil Hong, Ph.D, who is the famous President of the Korean Association of Air and Space Law and distinguished teacher at the prestigious Hankuk Aviation University. I had the honour and pleasure to teach there a few years ago - upon his gracious invitation. Professor Soon-Kil Hong has made a long, outstanding and impressive career in aviation and space activities, both from a practitioners and academic perspective. That is why I have tried to find a subject which addresses these facets of his personality although this humble article cannot do justice to the great merits of Professor Soon-Kil Hong. This article discusses the liability aspects for damages and injuries to passengers on suborbital flights, by examining: 1. Recent developments regarding space tourism 2. Suborbital flights in relation to the Chicago Convention 3. The application of space law treaties to space tourism 4. Potential candidates for liability regimes applying to space tourism 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Liability under international space law 4.2.1 The Outer Space Treaty (1969) 4.2.2 The Liability Convention (1972) 4.2.3 Conclusions 4.3 Liability under international private air law 4.3.1 Introduction 4.3.2 The Warsaw Convention (1929), as variously amended 4.3.3 The Montreal Agreement (1999) 4.3.4 Conclusions 5. Final observations

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Research Progress and Development of Technology in Tourism Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

  • Zhong, Lina;Zhu, Mengyao;Sun, Sunny;Law, Rob
    • Journal of Smart Tourism
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.3-12
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    • 2021
  • The interaction between technology and tourism has been a dynamic research area recently. This study aims to review the progress and development of technology in tourism research via a bibliometric analysis. We derive the source data from the Web of Science (WoS) core collection and use CiteSpace for bibliometric analysis, including countries, institutions, authors, categories, references, and keywords. The analysis results are as follows: i) The number of published articles on the role of technology in tourism has increased in recent years. ii) Technology-related articles in tourism are abundant in Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, and Annals of Tourism Research. iii) The countries with the most contributions are China, the US, and the UK. The most active institutions are the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Central Florida, Bournemouth University, University of Queensland, and Kyung Hee University. iv) The reference analysis results identify eight extensively researched topics from the most cited papers, and the keyword burst analysis results present an emerging trend. This study identifies the effect and development of technology in tourism research. Our findings provide implications for researchers about the current research focus of technology and the future research trend of technology in the tourism field.

Current Issues & Prospects of International Space Law

  • Zwaan, Tanja Masson
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.237-259
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    • 2010
  • This paper first gives a brief overview of the history of space law making in the international geopolitical context and recalls some of the main principles as elaborated in the framework of the United Nations. Next, several topics are discussed that will require the attention of space lawyers in the near future. They are the International Space Station, space debris, exploitation of space resources, space tourism, private property rights in space, and militarization and weaponization of space. The paper raises some questions in each of these areas that need to be addressed and concludes that the general legal framework for space activities under public international law as contained in the UN treaties is in place, and is sufficiently general and flexible to enable and encourage states to carry out space activities in an orderly manner. However, as demonstrated by the examples discussed in the paper, the time has come for the international community to agree on the further development of these general principles, starting perhaps with space debris, imminent 'new' uses of space such as space tourism, or some of the 'age old' issues such as the weaponisation of outer space that will continue to require our attention and vigilance. Whether such rules can be in the form of non binding guidelines, codes of conduct and the like, or should be embodied in solid legal instruments creating rights and obligations remains to be seen.

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Conceptual Design of a Rocket-Powered Plane And Its Use For Space Tourism

  • Park, Chul;Kim, Kyoung-Ho
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.46-55
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    • 2005
  • A rocket-powered vehicle is designed conceptually which uses an engine running on methane and oxygen and delivering 10 tons of thrust. The aerodynamic coefficients of the vehicle are taken to be those of the Japan's HOPE-X, and the weight of this vehicle is estimated using a method developed by NASA. The resulting vehicle will be about 9 meters long, 5.8 meters in wing span, weigh about 2 tons empty, carry a maximum of 5.6 tons of propellant, and endure a g-load of 4.5. The craft will be able to carry five passengers, in addition to a pilot, and fly for space tourism between a northern and a southern airport with a maximum g-load varying from 3g to 4g depending on the route flown.

A Study on the Legal Issues in Space Tourism (우주여행의 법적문제에 대한 고찰)

  • Kim, Jong-Bok
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.215-239
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    • 2011
  • We are now entering the era of Commercial Space Transportation with the rapid commercialization of space. Commercial Space Tourism will be realized first of all in the commercial space transportation and the spacecraft is developing for it led by private enterprise such as Virgin Galatic and XCOR Aerospace. The spacecraft for space tourism is developed as Reusable Launch Vehicle(RLV). RLV Spaceship I & II manufactured by the Scaled Composites for Virgin Galatic had completed experimental flight successfully and is going to put to the operation for space travel around the year 2012. In our country, Yecheon Astro-Space Center located in Yecheon, Kyungbuk Province, signed a binding-MOU with XCOR Aerospace and going to start space travel in the year 2013 with the spacecraft LYNX MARK-II. Thus, now space travel has become a reality to us. But it is also reality that there's no study by legal basis preparing for the space tourism domestically and internationally. In this regards, this thesis dealt with legal issues related to space tourism. These are as follows : (1) the applicabe law issue that is which law between air law and space law will apply, (2) the status of space tourist issue that is space tourist can be considered as personnel of a spacecraft and/or space flight participant and has the duty to obey the order of the captain of spacecraft, (3) the responsibility of the government for the non-governmental entities such as private enterprise which involved in space tourism in case space accident occurs during the space travel, (4) license permit and supervision issue by the government (In this point, for activating the market of the space tourism, I think it is essential to guarantee the safety of the spacecraft by the government authority, though U. S. government declared that it has not certified the launch vehicle as safe for carrying crew or space flight participants), (5) registration issue, (6) space insurance issue. For all the issues mentioned above, I have studied the existing international treaties and several country's domestic law to the space by referring U.S's Commercial Space Launch Amendment Act of 2004 and New IGA of 1998 and concluded that uniform legal regime to govern these issues should be established domestically and internationally in the near future.

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Space Planning of Agricultural Park with Local Special Products: Case Study on 'Cheongsong Apple Park', Cheongsong-gun (지역 농특산물을 활용한 농업공원 공간기본계획 -청송군 '청송사과'를 활용하여-)

  • Yun, Hee-Jeong
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.263-279
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    • 2011
  • Rural tourism is primarily a domestic tourism activity with visitors traveling to non-urban area. Therefore, local agricultural and special products as one of rural amenity resources have been used revisitation carriers of rural tourism. For these purpose, this study selected Cheongsong-gun in Gyeongsang province, which has been famous for Cheongsong apple and planned space program on that sites as on-farm research. The sites are divided into 6 districts, agricultural production, leisure, cultural space, events or festival, green space, infrastructure for local residents and tourists. Above all, this study led local government to develop related policies using local agricultural and special products, which can be an example to plan for regional development.