天空之城邮轮的幻想

科技的进步极大地影响了我们的旅行方式:我们从马车变成了汽车、游船和飞机。然而，除了海洋游船相对来说更有趣之外，其他的模式仅仅是作为一种交通工具，给乘客提供很少的娱乐和舒适。

科技将如何继续改变旅行?我们真的不知道，但是，这是一个奇迹，仅仅两个世纪以前，人们还无法想象飞行的机器(飞机)，现在我们经常去太空旅行，有太空站环绕地球等等。通过这个项目，我的目的是探索一种革命性的旅行方式:天空之城邮轮，它具有飞机和邮轮的双重特性。它能像飞机一样飞行;它还可以作为一艘邮轮停靠在指定的城市，乘客可以在几天内下船参观一个城市，然后继续他们的飞行巡航之旅。天空之城将提供一种全新的旅游方式，一种重新发现旅游奇迹的方式，它将允许人们体验壮观的和异国情调的景观，而不是入侵或剥削(或至少是最低限度的)。

综上所述，很明显，该项目具有实用性和思考性的双重属性。一方面，它是一个实际的项目，分析了客户和酒店专业人员的期望，酒店的地点和未来趋势等。另一方面，这也是一个推测性的项目;然而，在我们当前的技术环境下，“天空之城”邮轮似乎并不可行，“我们理解未来的基本方式是，出于需要，去想象它。””(Dobraszczyk, 2017)

Technological advances have dramatically impacted our modes of travelling: we went from horses and wagons to automobiles, cruise ships and airplanes. However, except ocean cruise ships are relatively more fun and interesting, other modes are used solely as a means of transportation and offer the passengers little in the way of entertainment and comfort.

How will technology continue to change travel? We can’t really know but, it is a wonder, that only two centuries ago, people could not conceive of a flying machine (airplane) and now we travel to space regularly, have space stations orbiting planet Earth and so on. With this project, it is my intention to explore a revolutionary mode of travel: a sky city cruise liner, which has the combined characteristics of an airplane and a cruise ship. It is capable of flight just like an airplane; it can also dock in designated cities as a cruise ship, allowing passengers to disembark and visit a city over several days and then continue their flying cruise journey. The sky city would provide a totally new way of traveling, a way of rediscovering the marvel of travelling, that would allow people to experience spectacular and exotic landscapes without being incursive or exploitative (or, at least, minimally so).

Taking the above into consideration, it becomes evident that this project demonstrates the dual attributes of practicality and speculation. On the one side it is a practical project, analyzing the expectations of, both, customers and hospitality professionals, places of hospitality and future trends, etc. On the other side, it is also a speculative project; the sky city cruise liner does not seem feasible in the context of our current technology, however, “the fundamental way in which we make sense of the future is, by necessity, to imagine it.”(Dobraszczyk, 2017)