Space tourism - A future dream or a cyber-tourism reality?

Tourism Recreation Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 27-35

  Prideaux, Bruce ^a   Singer, Petra ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyber tourism; Cyber travel; Knowledge diffusion; Scenarios; Space tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751523951     PISSN: 02508281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2005.11081484     Document Type: Article

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