The Footprint of Polar Tourism
Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard
- 306 pages
- English
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The Footprint of Polar Tourism
Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard
About this book
This thesis aims to describe and interpret the effects of tourism on historic sites in Antarctica and Svalbard (also known as Spitsbergen), and to assess the implications for management. Explorers, whalers, seal hunters, scientists and others have left many material remains in the Polar Regions that are significant because they tell the history of the exploration and exploitation of these regions. Contemporary polar tourism represents a new phase in this exploration and exploitation of the Polar Regions. The potential for the transformation of historic sites has increased following the substantial expansion of polar tourism in recent decades. Key cultural heritage sites are regularly included in standard tourist itineraries and are also the subject of specialized tourism. In this context, the central research question of this thesis is: What are the effects of tourism on polar historic sites, and what are the implications of this for the management of tourism and these historic sites?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abstract
- 1 General introduction
- 2 Research methods
- 3 Regulating Antarctic tourismand the precautionary principle
- 4 Monitoring the transformation of historic features in Antarctica and Svalbard: Local processes and regional contexts
- 5 Antarctic scientific bases: Environmental and cultural heritage perspectives 1983-2008
- 6 The polar cultural heritage as a tourism attraction
- 7 From extraction to exhibition: Tourism at a disused marble quarry at Ny-London, Svalbard
- 8 Cultural heritage tourism in Antarctica and Svalbard: Patterns, impacts, and policies
- 9 Overview and synthesis
- 10 General conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1 – Acronyms and abbreviations
- Appendix 2 – Glossary
- Appendix 3 – Cultural heritage in the 2001 Svalbard Act
- Appendix 4 – Cultural heritage in the 1991 Antarctic Protocol
- Appendix 5 – List of interviewees