ProAct - Proactive Management of Antarctic Tourism

ProAct is a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) entitled Proactive Management of Antarctic Tourism: Exploring the Role of Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) Principles and Values and Best Practices Beyond the ATS. The consortium is comprised of Tilburg University (TiU), Utrecht University, and Wageningen University (WUR). The objective is to develop knowledge for strengthening the proactive management of tourism within the ATS on four themes, each covered by a Ph.D. or post-doc project: 1. Tourism growth, by developing a cap-and-trade system of visitation permits, whose revenues will be used for tourism management (e.g. monitoring research); 2. Tourism diversification, by identifying drivers and developing a framework for conducting pre-assessments relating to new, novel, or particularly concerning activities; 3. Domestic implementation of the Protocol, by identifying gaps, overlaps and conflicts in and between domestic implementation legislation, and developing proposals to address these; and 4. The role of non-use and non-user States, by identifying their current role in the ATS and developing proposals for their enhancement.