“…The development of cruise ports in the Arctic and their development into special cruise tourism destinations can contribute to regional economic growth, additional income and employment opportunities (Fridriksson, Wise, & Scott, 2020). However, the over-development of cruise tourism will also lead to the negative impact of human activities on the fragile ecosystem of the Arctic region (Johannsdottir, Cook, & Arruda, 2021), for example, ship fuel leakage (Helle, Mäkinen, Nevalainen, Afenyo, & Vanhatalo, 2020), air and noise pollution (Chen et al, 2021), plastic pollution (Bergmann et al, 2022) and disturbance of marine species and wildlife caused by ship passage (Halliday et al, 2022).…”