Tourist - Exactly. From the earliest days the bane of LTA was the idea that first-of-class ships were not experimental aircraft. (See R.101, unfortunate end of.) There have been exactly two large hybrid airships flown. The HAV craft has flown once and the P-791 not much more than that.
The current HAV team has (I think) learned that lesson from the LEMV shambles, and is not proposing the aircraft at Cardington as anything other than a prototype and a platform for demonstrations, nor suggesting unmanned ops anywhere in the near term.