Tourism in the Arctic: A Catalyst for Good or Bad?

• Main Author: Gosse, Laura
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: WBI Studies Repository 2022
• Subjects: Ecotourism; Artic Tourism; Arctic; Canada; Faroe Islands; Greenland; North Pole; Norway; Global warming; Iceland; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/wbn/vol4/iss3/3; https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/context/wbn/article/1115/viewcontent/Tourism_in_the_Arctic__A_Catalyst_for_Good_or_Bad.pdf

The Arctic, a region extending from the North Pole into Canada, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States, has experienced global warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet. The likely cause of such higher temperatures? Loss of sea ice. “When bright and reflective ice melts, it gives way to a darker ocean; this amplifies the warming trend because the ocean surface absorbs more heat from the Sun than the surface of snow and ice.” (NASA).