Astrotourism

Introduction

The foundations of civilization are grounded in the night sky, as the stars have been stitched into the human race’s history. There was no place on the planet where people did not commune with the darkness of night and watch the cavalcade of stars sweep over the Earth in an endless procession. Today, we are witnessing the disappearing view of the night sky in the course of one human lifetime, after it had been here with us for hundreds of thousands of human lifetimes.

Here is a nursery rhyme that you may know but four lines of. People are mostly oblivious to something they do not know exists while knowing it exists. We know intellectually that stars are in the sky, while at the same time, not seeing and experiencing the stars in ...