Antarctica has become a popular tourist destination, flying pigs set sail to the Antarctic special line, thousands of people will go to the Antarctic New year!
Recently, the Beijing Municipal Tourism Development Commission issued a "Circular on strengthening the Management of Tourism activities to Antarctica and other ecologically vulnerable areas," in response to the recent increasing popularity of Antarctic tourism. Travel agencies are required to file team information 30 days before a tour, while tourists sign an environmental commitment to reduce environmental damage to ecologically vulnerable areas such as Antarctica.
Tourists have to sign a commitment.
According to the notice, in organizing tourism activities to Antarctica and other ecologically fragile areas, the group is responsible for the main body, and the legal representative is the first responsible person. Tourists are responsible for their tourism activities. The Municipal Tourism Commission requests the relevant organizations to carry out the implementation of relevant laws and regulations and the treaties on ecologically fragile areas to which China has acceded, and to engage in tourism activities in accordance with the contract in accordance with the law.
All travel agencies should strengthen environmental protection tourism and civilized tourism publicity, strengthen relevant knowledge training for tour guides, team leaders and tourists, carefully introduce the relevant situation and relevant regulations of tourist destinations, and require tourists to sign environmental protection commitment books before the trip. A detailed description of environmental protection matters that should be noted in tourism, suggesting that tourists should not engage in activities prohibited by national laws, regulations, conventions and treaties.
Team filing 30 days in advance
The notice requires that 30 days before the organization of tourism activities to the ecologically vulnerable areas such as Antarctica, the organization shall truthfully inform the number, time, cycle, route, itinerary, region and content of the relevant tourism activities, Accurate to the national tourism regulatory service platform for the record. The relevant associations should take the necessary measures to minimize the damage to the environment and ecosystems caused by tourism as far as possible. If serious damage occurs, it should be reported to the resident organization and the Municipal Tourism Commission in a timely manner.
In addition, the Antarctic itinerary manual received before the trip was one of the strictest in history, with more than 30 environmental norms and considerations alone, including "searching" clothes and pockets with vacuum cleaners before landing to prevent hidden species from being inadvertently left in Antarctica. Also replace the disinfected special landing boots. In addition, visitors are not allowed to litter at will, take away any animals and plants in Antarctica, man-made objects, do not feed, touch birds and seals or approach, take photographs to change their ecological behavior, and so on.
Antarctic tourism heat surge
Since this winter, major travel agencies have set off a wave of travel to the Antarctic. According to incomplete statistics, the number of Chinese visitors to Antarctica has increased nearly 40-fold from less than 100 in 2008 to 3944 in 2016. In mid-January alone, 2000 Chinese tourists from Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong met on cruise ships on the pig's Antarctic dedicated line and chartered ships to Antarctica. In 2018, China is expected to become the second-largest tourist destination after the United States.
"Antarctica is different from other tourist resorts, because of its low temperature, the self-purification ability is very poor. A banana peel takes 180 years to break down in Antarctica, and human excreta takes longer. " According to the relevant person in charge of flying pigs, in the Antarctic Zhongshan station, after the toilet is not flushed, but with fire. Incinerated waste will be packaged and shipped back to the country in an effort to minimize environmental pollution from human activity to the South Pole. Visitors to the South Pole go to the toilet on cruise ships and, although not on fire, there are strict layering mechanisms.