The paper focuses on the dimensions of further research of space tourism and analysis on the
perception, thoughts of space travellers. The commercial space market started in 1970 and it is
still growing. In the last ten years the GDP has increased by 16% per year due to commercial
space related activities of the world. Now the market is of more than 250 billion dollar per year
(Shkolyar, 2009).
The space tourism industry is vast and has great potential. This industry can grow every year by
18- 26% according to Spacesport Scotland (2009). With the potential of this industry the cost of
space access can be reduced by attracting other players.
Russia began the space tourism by giving opportunity to the space tourist on its Soyuz (Futron
2002) and that’s how the orbital space tourism began. Though different private companies are
manufacturing spacecrafts but the most suitable ones are the Russian Soyuz and Chinese
Shenzhou.
Factors influencing space industry and further research:
1) Notion of ‘space tourist': FAA and ESA officials prefer the term ‘space travel participant'
rather than ‘space tourist' considering the risk factors.
2) Actual Demand:
3) Space tourism awareness: The opinions, knowledge on scientific experiments,
technology, common attitudes, behavior of general public needs to be analyzed for the
development of space tourism activities. These factors can influence the funding
decisions of public sector bodies and government.
4) Motivational inquiry: The motivational theories and concepts were applied to explain
tourists' motivation in the past. In-depth research is done to investigate and establish the
motivational hypotheses.
5) Risk factor:
