Searching for the perfect holiday destination is one big bother for people around the globe these days. Even when they are all ready to 
spend millions, they may not have much to look forward to other than standard attractions like beaches, mountains & desert safaris. Not any more, though. To the rescue of such ‘been there, done that, what’s next’ genre of tourists, comes the enchanting new world of space tourism. What was once a fantasy for human beings (unless you worked for NASA), has turned into a space (read ground) reality today. At a heft y price tag of $20-$25 million, one would think that there would not be many travelers wanting to explore the space. But such is the popularity of this concept that the Russian space program that provides the transport for space travel is fully booked until 2009. Though only five tourists have travelled in space so far, the demand is on the rise. The fifth space traveller, Charles Simonyi, a South African billionaire, flew recently on April 7.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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spend millions, they may not have much to look forward to other than standard attractions like beaches, mountains & desert safaris. Not any more, though. To the rescue of such ‘been there, done that, what’s next’ genre of tourists, comes the enchanting new world of space tourism. What was once a fantasy for human beings (unless you worked for NASA), has turned into a space (read ground) reality today. At a heft y price tag of $20-$25 million, one would think that there would not be many travelers wanting to explore the space. But such is the popularity of this concept that the Russian space program that provides the transport for space travel is fully booked until 2009. Though only five tourists have travelled in space so far, the demand is on the rise. The fifth space traveller, Charles Simonyi, a South African billionaire, flew recently on April 7.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
Read more:-
· My Blog
· IIPM News
· IIPM : IIPM Links
· IIPM: More about IIPM
· IIPM Alliances - IIPM - by RAVI
· IIPM PUBLICATION
· IIPM: The Indian Institute of Planning and Management-------
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