Tourism and Change in Polar Regions: Climate, Environments and Experiences
- ISBN-10
- 1136971998
- ISBN-13
- 9781136971990
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-07-15
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- C. Michael Hall, Jarkko Saarinen
Description
Tourism is seen as one of the few economic opportunities in these regions but at the same time the polar regions are being opened up to tourism development they 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 geopolitics all bring into question the sustainability of polar regions and the place of tourism within them.
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