{"id":12909,"date":"2013-03-19T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/as-tourism-numbers-rise-in-antartica-conservation-alarm-bells-go-off\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T01:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T01:34:00","slug":"as-tourism-numbers-rise-in-antartica-conservation-alarm-bells-go-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/as-tourism-numbers-rise-in-antartica-conservation-alarm-bells-go-off\/","title":{"rendered":"As tourism numbers rise in Antartica, conservation alarm bells go off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rodeime\/6975010054\/\" title=\"Ponant_6010 by Roderick Eime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ponant_6010\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7186\/6975010054_99f29c8f73.jpg\" width=\"500\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Passengers explore by Zodiac along the Antarctica Peninsula\u00a0 (R Eime)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>by Rod McGuirk, Associated Press <\/p>\n<p>Across most of Earth, a tourist attraction that sees 35,000 visitors a year can safely be labeled sleepy. But when it\u2019s Antarctica, every footstep matters.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism is rebounding here five years after the financial crisis stifled what had been a burgeoning industry. And it\u2019s not just retirees watching penguins from the deck of a ship. Visitors are taking tours inland and even engaging in \u201cadventure tourism\u201d like skydiving and scuba diving under the ever-sunlit skies of a Southern Hemisphere summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skift.com\/2013\/03\/16\/as-tourism-numbers-rise-in-antartica-conservation-alarm-bells-go-off\/\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers explore by Zodiac along the Antarctica Peninsula\u00a0 (R Eime) by Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Across most of Earth, a tourist attraction that sees 35,000 visitors a year can safely be labeled sleepy. But when it\u2019s Antarctica, every footstep matters. Tourism is rebounding here five years after the financial crisis stifled what had been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}