Polar Tourism

An Environmental Perspective

Bernard Stonehouse, John Snyder

• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781845411459
• eBook ISBN: 9781845411930
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

Tourism throughout the world raises environmental issues that are often concerned with conflicting rights and responsibilities: the inherent right of mankind to travel, the no-less inherent right of indigenous people to guard their environmental heritage, and the responsibility of governments - local, national or (in the unique case of Antarctica) international - to protect environments over which they exercise stewardship. Additionally, the presence of international commercial enterprises, especially marine and other mass transport modes, represent unique governance challenges.This book deals mainly with environmental issues and the management implications arising from polar tourism, one of the fastest-growing sectors of world tourism. However, many of the issues discussed here arise no less urgently in temperate and tropical wilderness areas, and indeed in any region where sensitive environments are subjected to mass tourism. The principles and guidelines discussed here are of interest and practical use in tourism studies generally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Authors' Introduction
• 1 Arctic and Antarctic: Polar Regions and Environments
• 2 Arctic Tourism: History and Development
• 3 Antarctic Tourism: History and Development
• 4 Tourism in Changing Polar Environments
• 5 Wilderness Tourism: Challenges and Techniques
• 6 Managing Shipborne Tourism
• 7 Polar Culture and Heritage Tourism
• 8 Southern Oceans and Antarctic Tourism
• 9 Managing Polar Tourism: A Way Forward
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix E
• Appendix F
• References