Submarine diving, space travel and climbing to great heights, including visits to conflict zones or hunting in large game reserves, are part of the so-called high-end tourism, a phenomenon that seeks new and exclusive adventures at affordable prices.

death of five members of the crew of the submarine that they were going to see the remains of the Titanic about 600 kilometers southeast of the coast of Newfoundland (Canada), paying some $225,000 per personreturned to the fore a trend that, according to experts, in some aspects will move the figures of billionaires.

Since in 2001 American billionaire Dennis Tito paid the Russian space agency Roscosmos $20 million to travel to spaceorbital tourism has become a source of business for companies around the world.

Until 2009, seven “tourists” traveled outside the atmosphere, including a woman, all of whom were wealthy businessmen who each paid between $16 million and $35 million for Canadian Guy Laliberte.

In recent years, private companies such as Blue Origin of Jeff Bezosand SpaceX from Elon Musk They developed space travel projects.

Unlike SpaceX, blue background It mainly focuses on the more commercial side of orbital travel, i.e. recreational or space tourism. Its first flight took place on July 20, 2021, when Bezos made the eleven-minute journey, accompanied by his brother Mark, 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk, and Oliver Demen, 18-year-old Dutch student, son multi millionaire who bid at a public auction for a seat at the New Shepard.