Space tourism
Roscosmos sent the ‘First space tourist’ was Japanese TV reporter Toyohiro Akiyama in 1990 to the Russian Mir Space Station flying on the Soyuz TM-11 and returning on Soyuz TM-10.
Toyohiro Akiyam a retired Japanese TV journalist and professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. In December 1990, he spent seven days aboard Mir.
Then British chemist Helen Sharman in 1991 to space after winning a competition in the UK to fly to Mir to become the first British women in space.
Late a company called Space Adventures arrange with Roscosmos to send space tourist to the International Space Station(ISS)
The first to fly was Dennis Tito when he flew to the International Space Station(ISS) in 2001.
Dennis Tito at ISS
Watch this very interesting view of space travel and the point of going
The world's first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari,
Anousheh Ansari Web site http://anoushehansari.com/
Many 'New Space' Companies plan on space tourism, Space Adventures are already active going to the ISS.
New companies to look out for are