{"id":2389,"date":"2009-12-17T22:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-tourism-as-%e2%80%9cthe-final-undiscovered-frontier%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T22:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:08:26","slug":"space-tourism-as-%e2%80%9cthe-final-undiscovered-frontier%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/space-tourism-as-%e2%80%9cthe-final-undiscovered-frontier%e2%80%9d.php","title":{"rendered":"Space tourism as \u201cthe final undiscovered frontier\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey released yesterday by World Travel Market, a UK-based travel industry event organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtmlondon.com\/page.cfm\/T=m\/Action=Press\/PressID=930\">offers a somewhat pessimistic take on the space tourism market<\/a>.  The study, based on a poll of 1,030 Britons who took a summer vacation in 2009, found that only 27% said they would be interested in traveling into space; 50% said they were not and 23% said they might be interested.  In addition, 74% said &#8220;they feared space travel would remain too expensive and exclusively for the super rich&#8221;, and only 4% thought it would became an &#8220;affordable mass-market travel product&#8221; within 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers at first glance don&#8217;t sound promising: the press release leads off  by claiming that &#8220;price concerns are turning holidaymakers off from becoming space tourists&#8221;.  However, the numbers aren&#8217;t that surprising.  First of all, the poll doesn&#8217;t appear to have limited their polling to people with the means to pay for a spaceflight at currently-planned prices.  Second, the numbers aren&#8217;t that different from previous polls that did put such limits on respondents: for example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futron.com\/pdf\/resource_center\/white_papers\/SpaceTourismMarketStudy.pdf\">2002 Futron\/Zogby poll<\/a> found that 19% of people with the means to pay for a space tourism flight were either &#8220;definitely&#8221; or &#8220;very&#8221; likely to take a suborbital spaceflight (a number that rose to 28% when given a more rosy description of such a flight).  Even that more pessimistic number resulted in a forecast of thousands of potential tourists a year after just a few years of operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s disappointing holidaymakers fear they will be priced out of becoming space tourists,&#8221; Fiona Jeffery, chairman of World Travel Market, said in the release. &#8220;However, I&#8217;m confident the price will drop dramatically the more space tourism takes off.&#8221;  Even if there isn&#8217;t a dramatic drop in prices, though, there&#8217;s still a potentially lucrative market to be tapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey released yesterday by World Travel Market, a UK-based travel industry event organization, offers a somewhat pessimistic take on the space tourism market. The study, based on a poll of 1,030 Britons who took a summer vacation in 2009, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/space-tourism-as-%e2%80%9cthe-final-undiscovered-frontier%e2%80%9d.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-flight"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}