Project title
Basic research of space and astronomy education in general including tourism
Research Unit
Primary investigator
Co investigators
AKIYAMA Hiroaki, OKYUDO Masami, SATO Yusuke
Project period
2021/5/19 ～ 2022/3/31
Project summary
We study basic space-tourism and astro-tourism through investigating the policy of space development and space travel, the astro-tourism developing around the world, and the space education and astro-education which are the basis of above activity. We also study natural phenomena including solar eclipses and aurorae and our mother planet Earth as important contents of ground-based space- and astro-tourism.
Activity reports
●Journal article
- [1] Koki SAWADA, Masami OKYUDO, Exploring the astro-tourism space: A review of the English literature to build a research framework in Japan” Tourism Studies 26, 85-102 (2022.3)
●Research presentation
- [1] Basic Research of Space and Astronomy Education in General Including Tourism: Past and Future of Astro-Tourism
CTR Research Forum 2021, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University
Akihiko Tomita, Masami Okyudo, Hiroaki Akiyama, Yusuke Sato, Koki Sawada, Natsuki Kakuda, Sachiyo Uenoyama
2021.11.19,
