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来源类型 | Project |
规范类型 | 研究项目 |
项目编号 | 2343 |
A Sustainable (individual-) Tourism Concept for Antarctica | |
Susanne Altvater, Ass.iur.; Franziska Lehmann; Elena von Sperber | |
开始日期 | 2010-12 |
结束日期 | 2011-05 |
资助机构 | Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany |
概述 | On behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency Ecologic Institute conducted a study on the impacts of individual tourism in Antarctica. The report "A Sustainable Tourism Concept for Antarctica" sheds light on possible approaches to tourism management and develops a set of recommendations for a sustainable tourism concept in Antarctica. |
摘要 | On behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency Ecologic Institute conducted a study on the impacts of individual tourism in Antarctica. The report "A Sustainable Tourism Concept for Antarctica" sheds light on possible approaches to tourism management and develops a set of recommendations for a sustainable tourism concept in Antarctica. Over the past years, the considerable increase and diversification of tourism activities in Antarctica has become an issue of growing concern. While the majority of tourists in Antarctica travel on ships that hold large numbers of passengers, an increased number of travelers decide to visit the white continent as individual tourists, i.e. in smaller groups. The demand for activity-based tourism has been increasing, and new activities such as snowboarding, climbing, kayaking or scuba diving are starting to attract the attention of more and more visitors. The study takes a closer look at the development of Antarctic tourism in the past decades, focusing on sea-based and land-based individual tourism. It further analyses the legal framework in place to regulate human activities in Antarctica, which is currently rather fragmented with respect to tourism activities and the self regulation measures developed by the Antarctic tourism industry. To investigate the impacts of individual tourism and the challenges connected to it, Ecologic Institute conducted a survey of scientific literature and international political proposals. In addition, a series of interviews was conducted with key experts and stakeholders from 9 different countries, representing academia, government, NGOs and the tourism industry to help shed light on gaps in the current management of tourism in Antarctica and their potential solutions. Finally, a series of policy options and recommendations was drawn up in order to address the existing gaps and advance tourism management in Antarctica, such as:
The results of the study served as the basis for a paper presented by the German Delegation to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM), which took place in Buenos Aires in June 2011 (the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XXXIV), Buenos Aires (ARG), 20 June – 1st July 2011 in conjunction with the 14th meeting of the Antarctic Treaty's Committee for Environmental Protection, CEP XXXIV). |
标签 | Arctic ; Marine Policy ; Sustainability ; Tourism ; Ecologic Legal |
关键词 | Individual tourists activity-based tourism precautionary principle Antarctic Treaty System Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty concept of wilderness values self-regulation tourism management IAATO interviews Antarctica |
URL | https://www.ecologic.eu/4234 |
来源智库 | Ecologic Institute (Germany) |
资源类型 | 智库项目 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/39057 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Susanne Altvater, Ass.iur.,Franziska Lehmann,Elena von Sperber. A Sustainable (individual-) Tourism Concept for Antarctica. 2010. |
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