Tourism and Change in Polar Regions: Climate, Environment and Experience

摘要

For the armchair tourist, the immediate perception of arctic regions is of ice and rock, the setting for heroic endeavours by the early explorers. The premise of Tourism and Change in Polar Regions: Climate, Environment and Experience is that these are complex areas in which much change is occurring, and tourism is examined as a vector for ecosystem change. In 1981 only 855 visitors to Antarctica were recorded, in 2009 there are estimated to have been 40,000, far exceeding the number of scientists stationed there. In 2007, there were a total of over 5 million trips to the Arctic