The future of sustainable polar ship-based tourism
Over the last couple of decades, polar tourism has significantly grown in the number of visitors and diversified in terms of the tourism activities offered. The COVID-19 pandemic brought polar tourism to a halt and has prompted researchers, operators and policy-makers alike to reflect on how Arctic...
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ftunivwagenin:oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/623561 2024-02-27T08:33:46+00:00 The future of sustainable polar ship-based tourism Liggett, Daniela Cajiao, Daniela Lamers, Machiel Leung, Yu-Fai Stewart, Emma J. 2023 application/pdf https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/the-future-of-sustainable-polar-ship-based-tourism https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.10 en eng https://edepot.wur.nl/645233 https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/the-future-of-sustainable-polar-ship-based-tourism doi:10.1017/cft.2023.10 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Wageningen University & Research Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures 1 (2023) ISSN: 2754-7205 Life Science Article/Letter to editor 2023 ftunivwagenin https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.10 2024-01-31T23:12:55Z Over the last couple of decades, polar tourism has significantly grown in the number of visitors and diversified in terms of the tourism activities offered. The COVID-19 pandemic brought polar tourism to a halt and has prompted researchers, operators and policy-makers alike to reflect on how Arctic and Antarctic tourism have developed, how they are being managed and governed and, importantly, how tourism operators influence polar socio-ecological systems. Given the dominance of ship-based tourism over other types of tourism in the Polar Regions, we discuss the cornerstones of how polar ship-based tourism has developed over the last 50 years and explore the relevant international and regional governance regimes in this article. We identify which positive and negative biophysical, socio-cultural and economic impacts arising from polar tourism have been identified by researchers. It is difficult, if not impossible, to disentangle impacts caused by tourism alone from those that result from the interactions of multiple pressures at all levels (local, regional and global), and more research is needed to develop reliable and effective indicators to monitor tourism impacts. In addition, a better understanding is needed about the role tourist experiences might play in potentially encouraging long-term positive behavioural changes among visitors to the Polar Regions. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an important opportunity to review polar tourism development and management, and to ask whether an emphasis should be placed on ‘degrowth’ of the sector in the future. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre): Digital Library Antarctic Arctic Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures 1 |
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Over the last couple of decades, polar tourism has significantly grown in the number of visitors and diversified in terms of the tourism activities offered. The COVID-19 pandemic brought polar tourism to a halt and has prompted researchers, operators and policy-makers alike to reflect on how Arctic and Antarctic tourism have developed, how they are being managed and governed and, importantly, how tourism operators influence polar socio-ecological systems. Given the dominance of ship-based tourism over other types of tourism in the Polar Regions, we discuss the cornerstones of how polar ship-based tourism has developed over the last 50 years and explore the relevant international and regional governance regimes in this article. We identify which positive and negative biophysical, socio-cultural and economic impacts arising from polar tourism have been identified by researchers. It is difficult, if not impossible, to disentangle impacts caused by tourism alone from those that result from the interactions of multiple pressures at all levels (local, regional and global), and more research is needed to develop reliable and effective indicators to monitor tourism impacts. In addition, a better understanding is needed about the role tourist experiences might play in potentially encouraging long-term positive behavioural changes among visitors to the Polar Regions. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an important opportunity to review polar tourism development and management, and to ask whether an emphasis should be placed on ‘degrowth’ of the sector in the future. |
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