Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions

Promoting Environmental and Social Sustainability?
Herausgeber: Luck, Michael; Stewart, Emma J; Maher, Patrick T

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly. The industry has moved beyond its infancy, and is now entering a maturing phase with increased numbers and types of vessels, more demanding routes, and more regular and predictable patterns of activity. The increase in cruise activities, and the associated risks of accidents, as well as the potential and actual impacts of the large numbers of tourists in the polar regions bring with it management challenges for sustainable use of these regions. This book discusses critically the issues around environmental and social sustainability of the cruise industry in Polar Regions. Authors from Canada, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are experts in their respective fields and take an innovative, critical and at times controversial approach to the subject.

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First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9781844078486
• ISBN-10: 1844078485
• Artikelnr.: 29833202

Autorenporträt

Michael Luck is an Associate Professor and Head of Department (Tourism & Events) in the School of Hospitality and Tourism, and Associate Director for the coastal and marine tourism research program area at the New Zealand Tourism Research Institute, both at AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand. Patrick T. Maher is an Associate Professor in the Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Emma J. Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Parks at Lincoln University, NZ and is a Research Associate at the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Norman Douglas & Ngaire Douglas. 1. Setting the Scene: Polar
Cruise Tourism in the 21st Century. Part 1: Market Dimensions. 2. Polar
Yacht Cruising. 3. Cruising to the North Pole aboard a Nuclear Icebreaker.
4. Selling the Adventure of a Lifetime: An Ethnographic Report on Cruising
in the Antarctic. Part 2: Human Dimensions. 5. Cruises and Bruises: Safety,
Security, and Social Issues on Polar Cruises. 6. Exploring the Ethical
Standards of Alaska Cruise Ship Tourists and the Role they Inadvertently
Play in the Unsustainable Practices of the Cruise Ship Industry. 7.
Students on Ice - Learning in the Greatest Classrooms on Earth. Part 3:
Environmental Dimensions. 8. Environmental Impacts of Polar Cruises. 9.
Monitoring Patterns of Cruise Tourism across Arctic Canada 10. Climate
Change and its Implications for Cruise Tourism in the Polar Regions. Part
4: Policy and Governance Dimensions. 11. Stakeholder Perspectives on the
Governance of Antarctic Cruise Tourism. 12. Port Readiness Planning in the
Arctic: Building Community Support. 13. Beyond the Cruise: Navigating
Sustainable Policy and Practice in Alaska's Inland Passage. Part 5:
Conclusions. 14. Moving Forward. Index.