Tourism and Change in Polar Regions: Climate, Environments and Experiences

ISBN-13: 9780415489997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 336 str.

Michael Hall;Jarkko Saarinen

Opis

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 the latest tourism destinations, increasingly visited by cruise ships as well becoming accessible to direct flights. Tourism is seen as one of the few economic opportunities in these regions but at the same time that they are being opened up to tourism development, the polar regions 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 geo-politics in which countries disputing boundaries are laying claim to large amounts of seabed under previously international waters, which brings into question the sustainability of polar regions and the place of tourism within them.

This timely volume, is the first attempt to fully explore the relationship between Tourism and climate change in both Arctic and Antarctic polar regions by considering the associated environmental, economic, social and political factors in one volume. It uniquely draws on both Arctic and Antarctic Polar region case studies to help illustrate these climate change issues, critically evaluate varying perspectives on polar tourism and proposes action 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 written by an international team of leading researchers in this area will have global appeal to higher level students, researchers, academics in Tourism, Environmental Studies and Arctic/Polar Studies.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Context  1. Tourism and Change in the Polar Regions: Introduction – Definitions, Locations, Places and Dimensions  2. Tourism and Environmental Change in Polar Regions: Impacts, Climate Change and Biological Invasion  Part 2: Tourism and Change in the Northern Polar Regions  3. Cruise Tourism in Arctic Canada: Navigating a Warming Climate  4. Climate Change and Polar Bear Viewing: A Case Study of Visitor Demand, Carbon Emissions and Mitigation in Churchill, Canada  5. Climate Disruption and the Changing Dynamics of Polar Bear – Human Interactions in Northern Ontario: A Case Study of Polar Bear Management in Polar Bear Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada  6. Cruise Tourist Experiences and Management Implications for Auyuittuq, Sirmilik and Quttinirpaaq National Parks, Nunavut, Canada  7. A Holiday on Ice on Hold? Nature-Based Tourism and Climate Change in the Nordic North  8. Sustainability and Emerging Awareness of a Changing Climate: The Tourism Industry’s Knowledge and Perceptions of the Future of Nature-Based Winter Tourism in Finland  9. Constraints and Opportunities in the Development of Diamond Tourism in Yellowknife, NWT  Part 3: Tourism and Change in the Southern Polar Regions  10. Cultural heritage tourism in Antarctica and Svalbard: Patterns, Impacts, and Policies  11. Narratives of History, Environment and Global Change: Expeditioner-Tourists in Antarctica  12. "Awesome Size…Magnitude of the Place…the Incredible Beauty…": Visitors’ Onsite Experiences in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica  13. Images of Antarctica and Ushuaia (Argentina) as a Gateway Port: Antarctic Visitors and Their Expectations  14. Business as (Un)Usual: Integrated Scenario Analysis for Tourism in Antarctica  15. Tourism, Conservation and Visitor Management in the Sub-Antarctic Islands  Part 4: Conclusions and Future Issues  16. Contested Place and the Legitimization of Sovereignty through Tourism in Polar Regions  17. Last Chance to See? Future Issues for Polar Tourism and Change