ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a comparative approach across the Polar Regions. It illustrates how polar tourism research has matured, how polar tourism researchers engage with questions of global relevance to the study of tourism, and identifies trajectories of research in the study of polar tourism. A number of the books resulted from specific conferences on polar tourism, or have been based on the particular interests of the editors, and therefore can be regarded as thematic collections on topics such as global change, cruise ship tourism and regional development. A dedicated edition of The Polar Journal edited by D. Liggett and E. J. Stewart brings together a collection of papers arising from a polar tourism conference on polar gateways. Carefully positioned to showcase the emerging range of empirically-based polar tourism research during the International Polar Year, a special issue of the journal Tourism in Marine Environments on Polar Tourism was published by editors P. T. Maher and E. J. Stewart.
