Outer Space Tourism Public Relations Purposes, Practices and Problems

From: Public Relations Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Gibson, Dirk C | Copyright information

This paper describes and documents the surprising importance of public relations to outer space tourism. It is no overstatement to suggest that the future of outer space tourism depends as much on public relations as on any other single factor.

The significance of public relations to outer space tourism can best be appreciated through consideration of four main topics. They include; 1) The significance of outer space tourism, 2) Outer space tourism public relations purposes, 3) Outer s...

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