Activity+Three

= Task Three﻿ =



Now form a group of three and each group should have one representative from P&O’s tourism advisory board, an environmental patron from Greenpeace and a scientist working in Antarctica. Together as a group of three, you must now share the knowledge you have accumulated to create a sustainable cruise so that P&O can travel to Antarctica without too much impact on the flora and fauna and natural wonder of the South Pole. You will have to create a mind map displaying your ideas of how to create an eco-friendly tour and understandings of what precautions all boats must have before entering the Antarctic Circle.

Use the links below to research the rules already set in place for people to visit Antarctica. [|**Guidelines for Tour Operators**] [|**Statistics of tourism and its impacts in Antarctica**] [|**Waste management**] [|**Tourism: Frequently Asked Questions**] [|**Visitor guidelines**] [|**Antarctica Cruise and travel guide – the basics**]

sample itinerary http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~kpt/terraquest/va/expedition/itinerary.html http://www.hillmanwonders.com/antarctica_cruise/antarctica_cruise_itinerary.htm http://www.southernexplorations.com/antarctica-tours-cruises/antarcticaItinerary.htm



Pick three of the tours below that already bring people to Antarctica. Fill in the attached table with information about each tour that already goes to Antarctica.

Use the links below to explore different eco tours that are currently available in places all over the world. Use this to gain ideas of how you can make this tour environmentally friendly and how people can learn about Antarctica and how they can protect it.
 * Abercrombie & Kent** ([|**www.abercrombiekent.com**]) Charters //Minerva//, an ice-reinforced vessel carrying 199 passengers.
 * Fathom Expeditions** ([|**www.fathomexpeditions.com**]) Offers small-ship voyages to the Antarctic Peninsula.
 * Heritage Expeditions** ([|**www.heritage-expeditions.com**]) Operates the 48-passenger //Spirit of Enderby//, which carries two hovercraft. Heritage offers trips to [|**New Zealand**]’s sub-Antarctic islands, Macquarie Island and the Ross Sea.
 * Lindblad Expeditions** ([|**www.expeditions.com**]) Operates the 110-passenger //National Geographic Endeavour// and the 148-passenger //National Geographic Explorer// and offers kayaking.
 * Oceanwide Expeditions** ([|**www.oceanwide-expeditions.com**]) Offers trips on the 46-passenger //Grigoriy Mikheev//, the 46-passenger //Aleksey Maryshev//, the 52-passenger //Professor Molchanov// and the 52-passenger //Professor Multanovskiy//. Also offers scuba diving.
 * Quark Expeditions** ([|**www.quark-expeditions.com**]) Offers trips to the Ross Sea aboard the powerful Russian-flagged, helicopter-equipped, 112-passenger icebreaker //Kapitan Khlebnikov//, and a variety of trips to the Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia on //Akademik Ioffe// (109 passengers), //Akademik Sergey Vavilov// (104 passengers), //Clipper Adventurer// (122 passengers), //Ocean Nova// (68 passengers), //Orlova// (110 passengers) and //Akademik// S//hokalskiy// (48 passengers).
 * Rederij Bark Europa BV** ([|**www.barkeuropa.com**]) Operates the three-masted barque //Europa// with a professional crew of 14 plus 48 ‘voyage crewmembers.’

Video explain what is Eco-tourism (via YouTube.com) * media type="youtube" key="LsFG2_Zn4SY" height="349" width="425" align="center"

http://www.untamedpath.com/Ecotourism/what_is_ecotourism.html http://www.ecotourism.org.au/ http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable/about_geotourism.html http://www.ecotourism.org/site/c.orLQKXPCLmF/b.4832143/k.CF7C/The_International_Ecotourism_Society__Uniting_Conservation_Communities_and_Sustainable_Travel.htm
 * Other links to help you understand Sustainable Tourism: **




 * Now that you have an understanding of eco-tourism and the guidelines for tourism in Antarctica, fill in the attached table to present your recommendations for P&O’s new cruise tour to Antarctica. In the table you will see what P&O are proposing in the tour. In the column next to this proposal, you will have to decide as a group what would be an environmentally friendly alternative that is in line with the environmental guidelines of visiting Antarctica. ***