2010
DOI: 10.14430/arctic452
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A Review of Tourism Research in the Polar Regions

Abstract: ABSTRACT. Polar travel has grown dramatically in the last two decades and in recent years has become the focus of academic inquiry. Using a model initially developed for understanding the nature of culture, action, and knowledge in the development of human geography, we explore the nature, scale, and scope of research related to tourism in the Arctic and the Antarctic. We take a comparative approach to highlight the tourism issues that are largely similar in the two polar regions. Polar tourism research appear… Show more

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“…In the Arctic, discussion of priorities (or a research agenda) for tourism could be seen to begin with the work of Stewart et al (2005). They set the initial bar and opened up the conversation again, as earlier researchers in the early 1990s had done so already in a previous wave of interest in polar tourism.…”
Section: Tourism Prioritiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the Arctic, discussion of priorities (or a research agenda) for tourism could be seen to begin with the work of Stewart et al (2005). They set the initial bar and opened up the conversation again, as earlier researchers in the early 1990s had done so already in a previous wave of interest in polar tourism.…”
Section: Tourism Prioritiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Of relevance to this article is the work by Angell & Parkins (2011), who underline the objective to ''better understand the needs of communities in order to facilitate the collection of community*and culturally-appropriate baseline data that can be used to help set environmental and socio-economic standards, predict and measure impacts, and inform legislation, policies, and programs'' (p. 10). Also highlighted in the report is Stewart et al (2005) list of research gaps, which includes the need to undertake longitudinal studies of the cultural, economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism on communities and understand endogenous and exogenous influences on tourism development. Many scholars across the Arctic indicate that resolving the lack of baseline data is critical so as to better understand the impacts of tourism in order to inform appropriate adaptive responses (see Hall & Saarinen 2010;Fay & Karlsdottir 2011;CPC 2014).…”
Section: Aos and Tourismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Traditionnellement, le tourisme de cette région est principalement lié aux activités de pourvoiries, mais cette situation pourrait changer avec le Plan Nord et la création de nouveaux parcs (Québec, 2012). En effet, le tourisme de villégiature pourrait augmenter et par le fait même augmenter la pression sur les parcs (Stewart et al, 2005 ;Québec, 2012).…”
Section: Principaux Défis Liés Au Modèle De Cogestion Adaptative Proposéunclassified