space tourists? Where are they?

[Cant think of a username]

 I saw in a video that you can carry tourists. I have unlocked all the equipment needed to carry tourists. But when I tried to add the crew for the mission, it did not display anything about tourists. Also, what do carrying tourists do? i know they earn money.

[steuben]

They sit there, smile, freak out, and, if you have the mod, east snacks.

First you have to have send a kerbal to a location and back. So you will only get sub orbital contracts if that only where you've been. You've orbited Minmus you'll get orbit and fly-by Minmus contracts but not orbit Mun contracts.

[Cant think of a username]

1 hour ago, steuben said:

They sit there, smile, freak out, and, if you have the mod, east snacks.

First you have to have send a kerbal to a location and back. So you will only get sub orbital contracts if that only where you've been. You've orbited Minmus you'll get orbit and fly-by Minmus contracts but not orbit Mun contracts.

So that means that I have to get into orbit first?

[Spricigo]

To get tourist you need to be paying in career mode and accept a tourist contract. Go to the mission Control Building, look the available contracts available iand see the description to look which itinerary the tourist is interested in.

As mentioned by @steuben, only contract to places you already reached are offered. So no contracts at all until leave the atmosphere.