Polar tourism to climate change awareness
Boating among icebergs, sliding on the ice sheet ... in the Arctic, the Antarctic is extremely exciting experience. But above all, it was an opportunity to raise awareness about climate change with the guests.
According to the International Association of Antarctic Tourism (IAATO), the tourist season 2015-2016 will be 40,000 visitors, most of them from cruise tourism, exploring Antarctica than 26,500 people in 2011-2012.
IEM great feature , however, 1/4 of this hotel can not set foot on land. In a chapter dedicated to tourism in an international treaty on the protection of Antarctica, issued in 1994, ships carrying more than 500 people banned dock and at the same time people can set foot on the Antarctic land is limited 100. the soles of the lucky visitors forced sterilization to "prevent the introduction of alien species, the flying dirt germs" in the region. According to the explorer Nicolas Vanier, the potential for tourism development polar huge calendar by this region truly is the desert, when the entire Inuit and indigenous people have focused on cities with airports in the region. Mr Vanier said that the tourists will explore the polar regions as ambassadors to the community reflect on "the fluctuations of the climate situation heating up rapidly to the whole nature and do not have time to adapt." whether to follow many strict rules and only 1% of the Antarctic territory is open to visitors, but visitor numbers have been steadily increasing this makes continuous cruise lines, boat building ... If the phenomenon of mass tourism never appeared in the Antarctic, the Arctic territory shared by eight countries - Canada, the United States (Alaska), Denmark (Greenland), Russia, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Sweden Sweden - always put out guidance silhouette defined by travelers easier. Currently, the big ships carrying thousands of tourists can dock in Greenland. According Arctic Tourism Association (AECO), 2014, Arctic Greenland welcomed nearly 70,000 visitors and more than 40,000 landed in Spitzberg of Arctic Norway. The employer yacht Arctic to assert " polar nature is becoming the tourism sector is very trendy "when sales grew by 20% per year are. sustainable tourism at the Lofoten Islands (Norway) located within the Arctic, climate phenomena increase tourists gradually feel very well. Women Maury Margaux French tourists were surprised to wear short walk on the island for nearly 25 ° C weather in June, because 10 years ago the average temperature does not exceed 12oC during the same period points. She admitted clearer sense of the phenomenon of the earth heating up. currently, the countries with Arctic territory was generally close cooperation more frequent exchange of experience of tourism development north pole to minimize the risk of damage to the environment here. Journey through the Arctic waters in northwestern Baffin on the same street, from cruise tourists will admire the true parade of pale blue icebergs with all shapes, sizes. on the historic road linking the Atlantic and Pacific, Europe and Asia, across the Arctic islands, is a maze of channels, coves, straits are explorers discovered many centuries and many lost in the tragic shipwrecks. the journey takes only a short summer in the Arctic. If departure from Kangerlussuaq in Greenland, visitors will admire more interspersed fjord majestic glaciers, walking around the village is dotted with colorful houses. Meanwhile, the town of Ilulissat in the north of Greenland, where the sled dogs and more popular with residents 4.000km2 wide fjords with the icebergs shining like diamonds at the foot of the mountains of snow on the glacier are classified as world heritage. the tourist population, Ilulissat is one of the places to go before you die!
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