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...vessel. The wind was bordering on cyclone intensity and, with another lethal wall of icy water rearing up, I began to appreciate why the fierce 1,000-kilometer Drake Passage?renowned for consuming ships as they round Cape Horn?is considered one of the fundamental barriers to Antarctic tourism. The others are exorbitant cost, the remoteness and (should you ever forget it) the cold...
...wasn't until the fall of the Soviet Union that cheap Russian ice vessels and their crews became available to tour operators, and Antarctic tourism could really begin to develop, with the 1990-91 season setting a then record of 4,698 shipborne arrivals. Some predict that by 2005 as many as 22,000 people annually will notch up a visit, all on hardy hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights...
...moment, the brain-numbing magnitude of Antarctica?it's more than one-and-a-half times larger than Australia?makes regulating tourism there almost impossible. "We do this all on the honor system," said Bill, a crew member with a face nicely crisped by the omnipresent UV (Antarctica lies directly beneath the ozone hole). "No one monitors us, so it's up to us to do this kind of tourism safely and responsibly...
...told me about the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, a voluntary organization created in 1991 that encourages member companies to minimize the impact of tourism on the continent by following strict environmental guidelines. Nearly every Antarctica tour operator complies, but that could easily change as more companies elbow their way into this lucrative market, charging die-hard travelers up to $20,000 for the trip...
...world of nudists brims with surprises, perhaps the biggest is that it is a propitious moment for nudism in America. Membership in A.A.N.R. has climbed from about 40,000 a decade ago to nearly 50,000 today. A tourism official in Pasco County, Fla., says more than 100,000 tourists a year visit its five nudist resorts, of which Lake Como, founded in 1947, is the oldest. In 1992, Forbes estimated nudism to be a $120 million-a-year industry. A.A.N.R. claims that with all the nudist resorts, clothing-optional cruises (seven this year) and other enterprises (there...