Psychology of space tourism marketing, technology, and sustainable development: From a literature review to an integrative framework

Space tourism, a niche segment of the aviation industry, has radically altered private sector. A noticeable trend in this market been development commercial space with numerous start-ups and ventures underway. Adopting concept-driven approach, we conduct hybrid review to sketch emerging areas tourism provided insights into tourists' behavioral responses. Our results are supplemented by an analysis public viewpoints on space-faring gauge their alignment academic views tourism. We also develop integrative framework elucidate how personality interacts scenario influence feelings, thoughts, behaviors tourists responses toward recognize critical gaps previous literature propose following recommendations guide future research: 1) Conceptualization travel services typology new market; 2) theoretical contribution pragmatic semantic levels; 3) need for empirical multi-disciplinary studies; 4) investigating role ethical issues bilateral arguments commercialized tourism; 5) integrating stakeholders' perspectives maximize socioeconomic impacts environmental sustainability; 6) media platforms application technologies; 7) scientific journals knowledge enhancement.