Tourism in Antarctica

A party of skiers arrives after traversing overland to the South Pole, December 2009

Tourism started in Antarctica by the sea in the 1960s. Air overflights started in the 1970s with sightseeing flights by airliners from Australia and New Zealand, and were resumed in the 1990s. The (summer) tour season lasts from November to March. Most of the estimated 14,762 visitors to Antarctica from 1999–2000 were on sea cruises.[1] During the 2009 to 2010 tourist season, over 37,000 people visited Antarctica.

  1. ^ Trewby, Mary, ed. (2002). Antarctica: An Encyclopaedia from Abbott Ice Shelf to Zoo Plankton. Auckland NZ: David Bateman. p. 188. ISBN 1-86953-453-0.