Antarctic Tourism and Environmental Policy

Ecotourism a niche form of tourism focusing on nature wildlife and education is a product of the global environmental movement in the 1970s. By the early 1990s ecotourism along with similar nature-based and adventure tourism had become among the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry worldwide and remains so today (Society 2012). Ecotourism-style travel to the delicate Antarctic region the only place on earth without a permanent human population has also grown rapidly since the 1990s and continues to grow in terms of numbers of tourists as well as diversity of activities undertaken.