Ice Cold Antarctica Seeing Red Hot Tourism Numbers Donald Wood - Travel Pulse
go to original March 20, 2015

There are endless tourist attractions in the world, but one continent getting an increasing amount of love from visitors and cruise ships is the frozen tundra of Antarctica.

According to Luis Andres Henao of the Associated Press, there has been an influx of nature lovers, adventurers and explorers who have flocked to Antarctica to get a feeling similar to the one discoverers experienced when they landed on the polar continent for the first time.

More than 37,000 tourists are expected to visit Antarctica between November and March when the land is accessible and less dangerous. That is a roughly 10 percent increase from last year’s numbers, according to Henao.

When asked about the allure of visiting a continent like Antarctica, United Kingdom-based travel agency Antarctica Bound’s expedition leader Steven Cowpe told the AP:

“It's definitely on many people's bucket list. You feel like you're at the end of the planet because it's so wild and when you come back, you feel like you have achieved something great, even if you're not an explorer.”

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