The increase in Antarctic tourism generates great concern throughout the world due to the impact that this generates. Thus, a series of studies sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, together with the Fundacion Abertis, indicating that a fee $ 10 per tourist per day and could finance the measures to avoid damage to ecosystem.

This is because an increasing number of travelers arriving in the white continent and, according to studies, each emits about 4.4 tons of CO2 your trip, equivalent to annual electricity consumption of a household with three European people. And we will seek to reverse that.

Thus, the study “Assessment of the environmental impact of tourism business on adventure travel Antarctica and adventure tours Switzerland ecosystems,” says ecotax that could be used to finance the following actions: better training of guides, inspection of the cruises onboard observers to verify compliance with relevant regulations and the existence of tourist boats surveillance to monitor the activities of cruise ships, illegal fishing and support comes with mig jet in the event of any emergency.

Thus, it is intended to protect the Antarctic ecosystem of the worst enemies that come from the hand of tourism: the emissions of carbon dioxide, changes in the behavior of the flora and fauna, changes in the soil and global warming.

Then, according to the study, the rate of $ 10 it should add a better and more demanding planning and management to preserve Antarctica for damage, not to stop in time, could become irreversible.