New Issues in Polar Tourism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Issues in Polar Tourism write by Dieter K. Müller. This book was released on 2012-12-18. New Issues in Polar Tourism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New Issues in Polar Tourism traces and analyzes a decade of growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places. The book arises from the recently-formed International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN), and documents the outcomes of its 2010 conference, held at Sweden’s Abisko Scientific Research Station.
Tourism and Change in Polar Regions
Tourism and Change in Polar Regions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourism and Change in Polar Regions write by C. Michael Hall. This book was released on 2010-07-15. Tourism and Change in Polar Regions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world’s polar regions are attracting more interest than ever before. Once regarded as barren, inhospitable places where only explorers go, the north and south polar regions have been transformed into high profile tourism destinations, increasingly visited by cruise ships as well as becoming accessible with direct flights. Tourism is seen as one of the few economic opportunities in these regions but at the same time the polar regions are being opened up to tourism development they are being affected by a number of new factors that are interconnected to travel and tourism. Climate change, landscape and species loss, increasing interest in energy resources and minerals, social changes in indigenous societies, and a new polar geopolitics all bring into question the sustainability of polar regions and the place of tourism within them. This timely volume provides a contemporary account of tourism and its impacts in polar regions. It explores the development and prospects of polar tourism, as well as tourism’s impacts and associated change at high latitudes from environmental, economic, social and political perspectives. It draws on cutting edge research from both the Arctic and Antarctic to provide a comparative review and illustrate the real life issues arising from tourism’s role in these regions. Integrating theory and practice the book fully evaluates varying perspectives on polar tourism and proposes actions that could be taken by local and global management to achieve a sustainable future for polar regions and development of tourism. This complete and current account of polar tourism issues is written by an international team of leading researchers in this area and will have global appeal to higher level students, researchers, academics in Tourism, Environmental Studies, Arctic/Polar Studies and conservation enthusiasts alike.
Polar Tourism
Polar Tourism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polar Tourism write by Bernard Stonehouse. This book was released on 2010-06-07. Polar Tourism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions
Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions write by Michael Lück. This book was released on 2010. Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly. The industry has moved beyond its infancy, and is now entering a maturing phase with increased numbers and types of vessels, more demanding routes, and more regular and predictable patterns of activity. The increase in cruise activities, and the associated risks of accidents, as well as the potential and actual impacts of the large numbers of tourists in the polar regions bring with it management challenges for sustainable use of these regions. This book discusses critically the issues around environmental and social sustainability of the cruise industry in Polar Regions. Authors from Canada, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are experts in their respective fields and take an innovative, critical and at times controversial approach to the subject.
Tourism in the Polar Regions
Tourism in the Polar Regions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourism in the Polar Regions write by John Snyder. This book was released on 2007. Tourism in the Polar Regions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dynamic natural events and human activities in the Polar Regions are having a significant combined impact on these fragile environments, as well as on communities in populated regions of the Arctic. This publication describes the key features of the Polar Region environment and assesses the multiple roles and impacts of tourism activities in both the Arctic and Antarctica. It proposes an agenda for sustainable tourism development, and outlines principles, guidelines and selected good practices to conserve these unique wilderness areas through the regulation and management of tourism.
