international regularity body, a key to space tourism success
- Paper number
IAC-11,E7,2,11,x11695
- Author
Dr. Ali Akbar Golroo, Aerospace Research Institute, Iran
- Coauthor
Prof. Mohsen Bahrami, Aerospace Research Institute, Iran
- Year
2011
- Abstract
More than 2.5 Billion people are Traveling around the world by air every year which most of them are tourists. The tourism industry could not be successful without a reliable air transport industry, especially with regard to safety and liability of the service providers. Air transport industry is well regulated under the auspices of ICAO especially with regard to safety, certification and liability of the operators and service providers. While this has not impeded the advancement of the air transport not aviation dependant tourism, it has provided a reliability and public confidence and in its own right has helped to expand the tourism industry. Outer spaces as well as space tourism while interrelated both have international nature. Any proper use of outer space in particular in tourism industry should be able to attract the support and participation of all states. This will facilitate the development and of business in real global sense In order to have successful space tourism industry, we need to have well regulated operators and service providers especially with regard to the issues such as safety, certifications, liability with recognition and practice by all states. This can be done through the creation of an international body to regulate outer space activities especially for issues such as certification, standardization, safety requirements and liability of operators and service providers. This paper try to show how such an international body can be established and what would be its role in promoting the space tourists especially by private operators.
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