‘Our Consultants Are Now Very Excited About Selling Space Travel’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.04.07 | 9:43 AM ET
So says the operator of a travel agency in Dubai. We don’t often note articles in travel trade publications, but we can’t help pointing out this piece about a training session for travel agents selling space travel. It’s not that there’s anything particularly newsworthy here. It’s that space travel is treated like just another travel commodity—say, a Caribbean cruise.
The head of sales drops in from London to offer some background on the company and an overview of “the client experience.”
Except you also get lines like this: “The G-force surge will push the clients back into their seats as they head into the darkness of space to an altitude of 70 miles (110km) above the earth’s surface. When the rocket motor shuts down, all passengers, who by this stage are officially ‘astronauts’, will experience the silence of space, and majestic views earth [sic] as they float around the large cabin in zero gravity.”
The clients should enjoy that.
Related on World Hum:
* Singapore, United Arab Emirates Jump Into Space Tourism Race
* Neil Armstrong and the Promise of Space Travel
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
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