# Space tourism

Type: Product

Source: Space & Defense Intelligence Brief — https://getspacebrief.com/entity/space-tourism
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## Timeline

- **2026-08-22**: People's Daily Online publishes the feature — The same Xinhua feature appears on People's Daily Online under the title 'Rocket launches fuel industrial tourism boom.'
- **2026-08-21**: Xinhua report syndicated via Big News Network — Report highlights rocket-launch tourism across Haiyang, Wenchang, and Jiuquan, including assembly plant tours, VR/AR exhibits, and study programs.
- **2026-07-10**: Public rocket launch viewing in Wenchang — Tourists watch a rocket launch from the Longlou Town viewing platform in Wenchang, Hainan, documented by Xinhua.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### China turns 3 launch sites into industrial tourism hubs
2026-08-23 15:47:13 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

China is converting Haiyang, Wenchang, and Jiuquan into immersive rocket-launch tourism destinations, pairing public viewing with assembly plant tours, VR/AR exhibits, and study programs—an industrial policy move to build domestic space enthusiasm and a future aerospace workforce.
Full story: https://getspacebrief.com/story/china-rocket-launch-industrial-tourism-boom-2026

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