The polar tourist seeks to arrive at Polar Regions, situated close or further than the Arctic Circle to try out extreme cold areas, other than unique flora and fauna. The cold areas of Polar Regions is not comparable to winter tourism that necessitates vital and enduring infrastructures in the forms of accommodation for illustration, whilst polar tourism leans to be more free and does not essentially necessitate enduring mechanisms. More importantly, the majority of the polar tourism is planned for the period of the summer, whereas winter tourism, as its forename designates, takes benefit of the winter flavor. Tourism in Polar Regions in recent times has spectacularly increased, and the increase has been voluminous over the years. For illustration, indeed, in just a time period of one decade, the number of tourists arriving to Antarctica or Polar Regions by land has enhanced by 757 per cent, and those arriving by sea through 420 per cent. More importantly, in this region, the figure of visitors has increased by 50 percent ever since the 1990s. (UN Report, 2007). Nonetheless Polar Regions as tourist place is yet to fully developed and exploited. Certainly, Polar Regions are costly to take a trip to, and more importantly far left from interesting to each one. Bauer (2001) argues that this sort of tourism will by no means be the sort of mass interest like that of a Rio or a Cancun. The figure of visitors to Polar Regions may well be little comparing other nature-based tourist places; nevertheless it is rather high comparing neighboring populations. For case in point, in Iceland, the yearly figure of visitors is higher than the figure of populace.
极地旅游寻求到极地地区，位于接近或超过北极圈尝试极端寒冷的地区，除了独特的植物群和动物群。北极地区的寒冷地区冬季旅游，比不需要重要的和持久的住宿设施的形式说明，而极地旅游倾向更加自由，基本上不需要长效机制。更重要的是，大多数的极地旅游计划的暑假期间，而冬季旅游，作为其名指定，以冬季风味效益。最近在极地地区旅游已大大提高，并增加多年来一直浩繁。说明，事实上，在短短一年的时间，到达南极洲和极地地区的土地757个百分点提高游客的数量，和那些通过海运抵达通过420个百分点。更重要的是，在这个区域内，游客的数字已经进入90年代以来增加了百分之50。（联合国报告，2007）。尽管如此，北极地区的旅游的地方，还充分开发和利用。当然，极地地区去昂贵的，更重要的是远离有趣的每一个。鲍尔（2001）认为，将这种旅游不被大众利益的那种像力拓或坎昆。游客对极地地区的数字很可能有点相对于其他基于自然的旅游的地方；不过这是相当高的比较相邻种群。为例子，在冰岛，游客每年的数字比大众的人物。
