The Footprint of Polar Tourism
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The Footprint of Polar Tourism

Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard

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The Footprint of Polar Tourism

Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard

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This thesis aims to describe and interpret the effects of tourism on historic sites in Antarctica and Svalbard (also known as Spitsbergen), and to assess the implications for management. Explorers, whalers, seal hunters, scientists and others have left many material remains in the Polar Regions that are significant because they tell the history of the exploration and exploitation of these regions. Contemporary polar tourism represents a new phase in this exploration and exploitation of the Polar Regions. The potential for the transformation of historic sites has increased following the substantial expansion of polar tourism in recent decades. Key cultural heritage sites are regularly included in standard tourist itineraries and are also the subject of specialized tourism. In this context, the central research question of this thesis is: What are the effects of tourism on polar historic sites, and what are the implications of this for the management of tourism and these historic sites?

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Publisher
Barkhuis
Year
2011
ISBN
9789491431593
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Arqueología

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface
  4. Abstract
  5. 1 General introduction
  6. 2 Research methods
  7. 3 Regulating Antarctic tourismand the precautionary principle
  8. 4 Monitoring the transformation of historic features in Antarctica and Svalbard: Local processes and regional contexts
  9. 5 Antarctic scientific bases: Environmental and cultural heritage perspectives 1983-2008
  10. 6 The polar cultural heritage as a tourism attraction
  11. 7 From extraction to exhibition: Tourism at a disused marble quarry at Ny-London, Svalbard
  12. 8 Cultural heritage tourism in Antarctica and Svalbard: Patterns, impacts, and policies
  13. 9 Overview and synthesis
  14. 10 General conclusions
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. References
  17. Epilogue
  18. Appendix 1 – Acronyms and abbreviations
  19. Appendix 2 – Glossary
  20. Appendix 3 – Cultural heritage in the 2001 Svalbard Act
  21. Appendix 4 – Cultural heritage in the 1991 Antarctic Protocol
  22. Appendix 5 – List of interviewees