This document discusses tourism in Antarctica and its potential impacts. It notes that while cruise ships have signed guidelines to limit environmental impacts, such as limiting visitor numbers and maintaining distances from wildlife, land-based tourism could pose more significant risks. Specifically, activities like snowboarding risk damaging the fragile ecosystem. The growing size of cruise ships and potential for oil spills from accidents also threaten the environment. The future of Antarctica depends on balancing further tourism development with strong protections to preserve its last untouched wilderness.

1. Extreme Tourism Case Study:
Antarctica, to what extent can
it cope with the development of
a tourist industry?

2. Tourism in Antarctica
• Make notes whilst watching the two
video here; what are the negative
impacts on
Antarctica at
the moment?

3. Problems with tourism
• Video here

4. Antarctica – to what extent can it cope with
the development of a tourist industry?
• Turn to p314 to find out more about
tourism in Antarctica

5. Environmental
• Cruise ships have signed up to the
IAATO guidelines. These guidelines
include:
– No more than 100 visitors a ta time
– No closer than 5m to animals
– Don’t leave litter.

6. Environment
Positive Negative

7. Future of Antarctica
• (Don’t write down…)
• Worries about land based tourism, e.g.
snowboarding and the impacts that this
would have on the ecosystem as a whole.
• Larger cruise ships arriving.
• Oil spills from ships that sink.
• Greater awareness of this last
wilderness to promote protection.

8. Future of Antarctica
Positive Negative

9. Antarctica – to what extent can it cope with
the development of a tourist industry?
• Write a magazine article for National geographic
answering the question above.
• Remember to include;
– What impacts (positive and negative) does extreme tourism
have in Antarctica?
– What will Antarctica look like in the future (positive and
negative)?
• Use your text book, notes, internet and the A4
handout to help you.