Tourism and Change in Polar Regions

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.

Michael Hall is Professor, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and Visiting Professor, Baltic Business School, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. Co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism he has published widely in tourism and mobility, gastronomy and environmental history. Jarkko Saarinen is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include tourism development and its impacts and sustainability in peripheries. He is co-author of the book Nordic Tourism (2009), with C. Michael Hall and Dieter Muller.

Part 1: The Context 1. Tourism and Change in the Polar Regions: Introduction - Definitions, Locations, Places and Dimensions 2. Tourism and Environmental Change in Polar Regions: Impacts, Climate Change and Biological Invasion Part 2: Tourism and Change in the Northern Polar Regions 3. Cruise Tourism in Arctic Canada: Navigating a Warming Climate 4. Climate Change and Polar Bear Viewing: A Case Study of Visitor Demand, Carbon Emissions and Mitigation in Churchill, Canada 5. Climate Disruption and the Changing Dynamics of Polar Bear - Human Interactions in Northern Ontario: A Case Study of Polar Bear Management in Polar Bear Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada 6. Cruise Tourist Experiences and Management Implications for Auyuittuq, Sirmilik and Quttinirpaaq National Parks, Nunavut, Canada 7. A Holiday on Ice on Hold? Nature-Based Tourism and Climate Change in the Nordic North 8. Sustainability and Emerging Awareness of a Changing Climate: The Tourism Industry's Knowledge and Perceptions of the Future of Nature-Based Winter Tourism in Finland 9. Constraints and Opportunities in the Development of Diamond Tourism in Yellowknife, NWT Part 3: Tourism and Change in the Southern Polar Regions 10. Cultural heritage tourism in Antarctica and Svalbard: Patterns, Impacts, and Policies 11. Narratives of History, Environment and Global Change: Expeditioner-Tourists in Antarctica 12. "Awesome Size...Magnitude of the Place...the Incredible Beauty...": Visitors' Onsite Experiences in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica 13. Images of Antarctica and Ushuaia (Argentina) as a Gateway Port: Antarctic Visitors and Their Expectations 14. Business as (Un)Usual: Integrated Scenario Analysis for Tourism in Antarctica 15. Tourism, Conservation and Visitor Management in the Sub-Antarctic Islands Part 4: Conclusions and Future Issues 16. Contested Place and the Legitimization of Sovereignty through Tourism in Polar Regions 17. Last Chance to See? Future Issues for Polar Tourism and Change