re: Suborbital space tourism...
is doing fine. They are building SS2 and testing to flight around 2009.
Contrary to Bell and other space pundits New Space companies care about passengers safety and are making every effort to work out bugs before the first paying flights.
Orbital Space Tourism is a bigger challenge and I don't see any actual major progress that direction unless you count Falcon 1's 90% to completion as heading that direction.