Polar toursim - Glaciers

Question 1

What is Polar tourism?

Answer 1

A high volume of tourism in a polar area

Question 2

How many tourists visit the Antarctic every year?

Answer 2

40,000

Question 3

How many tourists does the Artic have compared to 1990?

Answer 3

1990 - 1 million
2015 - 2 million

Question 4

How many visitors does the recently build centre receive per year?

Answer 4

1 million

Question 5

How many cruise ships visited Svalbard in 2015?

Answer 5

Over 50

Question 6

How much has cruise ship tourism in Greenland increased by?

Answer 6

400%

Question 7

How much is a 20 day trip to Antarctica?

Answer 7

£14000

Question 8

Who police’s tourism in Antarctica?

Answer 8

The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators

Question 9

What are 3 potential issues with tourism?

Answer 9

• the development of land based tourism (in the Patriot Hills area)
• the spread of tourism to beyond the Antarctic peninsula
• increasingly large ships (800 passengers being used)

Question 10

What do the government wish to do about the increasing risks? (3 things)

Answer 10

• limits in tourist numbers
• ratification laws to prevent ships of more than 500 passengers landing
• limiting the numbers of passengers going ashore to a particular site to max 80 a day

Question 11

What caused localised pollution in 2007?

Answer 11

The MS Explorer sinking in the Bransfield Straits

Question 12

What suggests that tourism has a minimal impact on penguin colonies?

Answer 12

Surveys from the heavily visited Port Lockroy