THE only travel agent in Scotland selling tickets for Sir Richard Branson's space tours has admitted he has not sold a single ticket in two years.
Dream Escape, which bagged exclusive seller rights in February 2011, has failed to secure buyers for the trips that cost £130,000 each.
Across the globe nearly 600 people have signed up to the Virgin Galactic tours to be some of the first civilians to travel to the edge of space and look down on Earth.
However, the Edinburgh-based travel agents said safety-conscious Scots seemed to be wary of the travel and were waiting to judge the success of the first flight. David Tobin, owner of Dream Escape, said: "Maybe it's a Scottish thing.
"When you put Scotland alongside America, there's obviously a huge number of people [in America] who will get into the Disney-esque aspect of it and will put their money down.
"The Scots are very keen to see something in the air before they part with quite a decent amount of money.
"There are a lot of people who have requested information, but a lot of people are sitting with that information, waiting to see it happen."
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