Arctic

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Arctic Spotlight
http://www.planeta.com/poles.html#arctic

This new topic was suggested by Miriam Geitz:

In the tourism by geography section is no natural "home" for arctic tourism, so I wondered if there would be a possibility to open a separate folder?
Best wishes, Miriam
WWF Arctic Programme

GUIDELINES -- Please post short news and announcements about arctic tourism and conservation. If you have a website, post a link to the Planeta.com website or our new Polar Forum
http://forum.planeta.com/viewforum.php?f=72

We do create reciprocal links with other portals, educational, media and environmental sites. Businesses that offer tours should consider listing their services in our World Travel Directory
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TIP -- Please consult the forum guidelines
http://www.planeta.com/worldforum.html

[Peter-of-Arctic]

In October we formed the Sustainable Arctic Tourism Association with member all around the Arctic. This took place at a conference in northern Finland.

Our aim is
to provide a forum for tourism operators and other stakeholders
to launch a marketing label

And we like to get in touch with people and operators who would like to know more and maybe later become members of this association.

Peter Lugneg

[MGeitz]

I have the following question to the readers of this forum: does climate change play a role for your business/ work/ interest in arctic or northern tourism? Do you feel it is something that is taken into account when building a business, developing a tourism destination or engaging a community? If so, is the focus on minimizing negative impacts or also on actively reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

WWF has just started a cooperation with a tour operator in the Norwegian high-Arctic (Spitsbergen Travel) on reducing their "climate footprint", which we hope will become a pilot effort for others to follow.

[MGeitz]

WWF is accepting applications for a small grant from tourism businesses and stakeholders for conservation-related activities or projects. The deadline is Dec 16, 2006.

For more information go to
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we ... /index.cfm

[MGeitz]

Arctic Tourism Update

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Tip - Search news about the Arctic online Google News
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=arctic

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FYI - Melting ice is the theme for the 2007 World Environment Day
http://www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/

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Updating the Polar Spotlight
http://www.planeta.com/poles.html

Photo Gallery: Ice
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/se ... 0175371678

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An Arctic education
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/gallery/20 ... =329795847

Arctic Diary
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/travelog/arctic_diary

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What most politicians won

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International Polar Year Poster
http://nsidc.org/pubs/education_resourc ... oster.html

Helping scientists find and use data is the mission of the National Snow and Ice Data center (NSIDC) and the Alaska Satellite Facility, also known as the "Polar Distributed Active Archive Centers," which joined together to produce the IPY Poster.