Being there: examining the behaviour of Antarctic tourists through their blogs

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Roura, Ricardo M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2012
• Subjects: Polar tourism; Antarctic tourism; behavioural archaeology; tourist behaviour; tourism impacts; Antarctic environment; Antarctic; Deception Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2613; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.10905

Most visitors to Antarctica today are commercial tourists. Over 150 000 tourists visited Antarctica between 2007 and 2010, making up more than 700 000 person/landings. Despite the scale of tourism in Antarctica, knowledge about its environmental impacts is generally inconclusive, and monitoring is l...