Hi everyone at XCOR Aerospace, Aleta Jackson & Randall Clague recommended for me to post this to everyone, so here goes!
I am a 22-year-old undergraduate student undertaking a dissertation for a degree in Tourism Management & Human Geography at the University of Gloucestershire, England, U.K. I am in my final year and have just returned from a placement in Kakadu National Park, Australia. I now have to complete a double dissertation module. While most students are compiling boring tourism dissertations, I want to study something that really interests me, space tourism! I have researched space tourism and I feel that in the next 50 years there will be a huge growth in the space tourism market. It is extremely interesting. But, I have had a lot of criticism thrown at me as my university feels that there are very few potential space tourists to interview. They have therefore suggested not to research this subject. I am beginning to think that they are right as I am finding it EXTREMELY difficult in communicating with people interested in journeying into space, an edge of space trip or even to experience zero gravity/parabolic flights. But hopefully you can prove them wrong. The dissertation title is "Are today's adventure tourists, tomorrow's space tourists?" I anticipate interviewing a number of adventure tourists and space tourists/potential space tourists in order to ascertain whether they share similar characteristics and motivations in respect of their adventure and space pursuits. I would be honored and would truly grateful if you could spare me a short period in your day for an interview via the Internet or telephone. The interview would't be until February time but I am contacting you now so I have an idea of numbers and so you will have space in your diary. I have received advice from a number of sources, most notably: Space Adventures, John Brodie-Good of Wildwings, The Zero Gravity Experience, Zegrahm Space Society, Space Transportation Association, Inter orbital Systems, Space Future.com, David Ashford, Patrick Collins, Dr David Livingstone & NASA to name a few. I would like to think that my dissertation would be able to enhance the existing research for future space tourism. Any help would be gratefully received. Thank you for reading this e-mail and I look forward to your reply, Yours sincerely, Craig Kaufman. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
