As more and more tourists flock to Antarctica: a visitors’ tax and a numbers’ system cap

As more and more tourists flock to Antarctica: a visitors’ tax and a numbers’ system cap

By Daria Hatton MacDonald , University of Tasmania And Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania - The number of tourists heading to Antarctica has been skyrocketing. From fewer than 8,000 a year about three decades ago, nearly 125,000 tourists flocked to the icy continent in 2023–24. The trend is likely to continue in the long term.