caa a22 4500 388024399 CHVBK 20180307124933.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0032247400015266 doi S0032247400015266 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0032247400015266 Tourism on Svalbard [Elektronische Daten] This article gives an overview of tourism on Svalbard. Tourism to this archipelago, which is under the jurisdiction of Norway, started more than 100 years ago. As a modern industry, however, the end of 1980s can be seen as the starting period. Since 1990, tourism development has been given priority by the Norwegian government, and there has been a significant increase both in commercial activities and in the number of tourists. Early and recent tourism developments are presented. In 1996 tourism accounted for almost 200 jobs, 48,000 commercial overnights, around 12,000 airborne tourists, and between 15,000 and 20,000 cruise-ship passengers. The article then describes the most frequent types of tourists, and discusses tourism's impact on the environment. So far, tourism has not produced many documented problems on biota and heritage. Tourism regulation on Svalbard is also described, showing a multitude of means and arrangements, including a proactive self-regulation by the tourism industry. The future challenges, particularly the questions connected to the limits of volume, are discussed. There is a broad understanding of the need of an active policy from the authorities to cope with these questions. The article concludes by referring to the increased emphasis on environmental questions in the Norwegian politics concerning Svalbard, which probably also indicates a willingness to intervene with tourism development. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Viken Arvid Høgskolen i Finnmark, Follums vei 31, 9500 Alta, Norway Jørgensen Frigg Info-Svalbard, Postboks 323, N-9170 Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/189(1998-04), 123-128 0032-2474 34:189<123 1998 34 POL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400015266 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400015266 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Viken Arvid Høgskolen i Finnmark, Follums vei 31, 9500 Alta, Norway NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jørgensen Frigg Info-Svalbard, Postboks 323, N-9170 Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/189(1998-04), 123-128 0032-2474 34:189<123 1998 34 POL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge