TY - JOUR T1 - SPACE TOURISM: A VACATION TO MARS OR A SCIENCE FICTION AU - Yüncü, Hilmi Rafet PY - 2018 DA - July Y2 - 2018 JF - GSI Journals Serie A: Advancements in Tourism Recreation and Sports Sciences JO - ATRSS PB - Taki Can METİN WT - DergiPark SN - 2645-9116 SP - 45 EP - 52 VL - 1 IS - 1 LA - en AB - When Gagarin made his first space flight, no one could have imagined thatwould be turn space tourism vacation. New tourism horizons were opened whenspace travel for the first time took place at the beginning of the millennium.Since the story of Jules Verne “From the Earth to the Moon”, a trip to spacewith the purpose of tourism has become a fact in a century. Space is always acuriosity. There is a growing interest in humankind from day to day travelingto extra-terrestrial areas. In the next 50 years’ space tourism will become atype of tourism that everyone can easily join. Space tourism is explained asthe participation of non-professional people to the space flight with theamount of fee. As yet Space studies have been made with military purposes.After the end of cold war space studies have been made for a contribution tocommunity’s culture and economic development. This study provides a briefoverview of the space tourism possibilities and its future. KW - Space Tourism KW - Tourism KW - Orbital CR - Abeyratne R. (2011) Space Tourism. In: Space Security Law. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (pp.41-49) DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16702-7_4 Cohen, E. (2017) The paradoxes of space tourism, Tourism Recreation Research, 42:1, 22-31, DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2016.1239331 Cole, S. (2015) "Space tourism: prospects, positioning, and planning", Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 1 Issue: 2, pp.131-140, https://doi.org/10.1108/JTF-12-2014-0014 Crouch G.I. (2016) Space tourism. In: Jafari J., Xiao H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_535 Crouch. G.I.(2001).The Market for Space Tourism: Early Indications Volume: 40 issue: 2, page(s): 213-219 https://doi.org/10.1177/004728750104000212 Goehlich R.A. (2007) Space tourism. In: Conrady R., Buck M. (eds) Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. İstanbullu Dinçer, F., Can, İ. I., İnan, B. (2018). Post-Modern Turizm Paradigması Etrafında Şekillenen Gerçek Üstü Bir Deneyim: Uzay Turizmi (A Surreal Experience Shaping Around The Postmodern Tourism Paradigm: Space Tourism) Güncel Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi Cilt: 2, Sayı: 1, Bahar: 79-93, 2018. Kanas N. (2015) Space Tourism. In: Humans in Space. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Cham. Klemm G., Markkanen S. (2011) Space tourism. In: Papathanassis A. (eds) The Long Tail of Tourism. Gabler. Pizzam, A. (2008). Space Tourism: New Market Opportunities for Hotels and Cruise Lines, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 27: 489–490. Seedhouse E. (2014a) Space Tourism Trips. In: Tourists in Space. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Cham. Seedhouse E. (2014b) The Space Tourism Market. In: Tourists in Space. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Cham. Stephan Hobe, Legal Aspects of Space Tourism, 86 Neb. L. Rev. 439 (2007). Webber, D. (2013). Space tourism: Its history, future, and importance. Acta Astronautica 92 pp.138–143. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/atrss/issue//481431 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/576144 ER -