Extreme tourism

• Challenging environment
• Tourism only recently started 
• Physically/mentally challenging

Who does it:

• people looking for a challenge
• 30 years old
• unmarried
• DINKYs - Double Income No kids Yet

What is it & where is it happening:

• Climbing waterfalls & cliff diving in Jamaica
• Walking the Plank on Mount Hua
• Ice diving into the White Sea, North Russia

Why do it:

• Tired of package holidays
• High disposable income
• More companies specialising in extreme holidays

• Disturbance of Wildlife - penguins disturbed, which can cause their eggs to be eaten by predators and more energy is used so more food is needed
• Ships & Oil kill birds as oil disables birds from flying away so they die of hypothermia, and the detergents used to clean up oil spills are dangerous to marine life
• Waste materials from ships, e.g. Black & Grey water, has to be emptied into the sea
• litter takes 100s of years to decompose and so is unsightly

• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ANTARCTIC TOUR OPERATIONS (IAATO), have set carrying capacity of ships to 500 passengers
• SPECIAL SITES OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST, e.g. penguin breeding grounds
  
• PERMITS,have to be obtained and they cover: waste, risk, env. management
• ANTARTIC ACT 1994, is a UK act which supports the ANTARCTIC TREARTY 1961 and makes env. damage punishable by law