A principal worry is that humans may send out vital pathogens between wildlife colonies. Whilst visiting wildlife locations, tourists walk among groups of animals and inescapably amass excreta on their boots, nevertheless, that the existing boot-cleaning modus operandi might not be enough to avoid spread of bacterial pathogens by tourists visiting Polar Regions wildlife colonies (Curry et al., 2001). The evaluation of environmental effects of tourists and their movements in the Polar Regions is in its infancy, although there are some promising initiatives. Clearly, this is of great concern because if tourism movements are not dealt with effectively, the effects might not be correctly considered and might cause intolerable risks to an environment theoretically legally watched over by international treaty. Even though the effects of tourism on the Polar Regions are found primarily as environmental, large concerns as well exist in relation to the effects of tourism (Splettstoesser, 2004).
Regardless of these environmental concerns, there are assertions, hard to establish and until now unconfirmed, that Polar Region tourists are the paramount promising envoys for the Antarctic, as they extend the memo in relation to the necessity for environmental safety whilst they come back home. In spite of up-and-coming research bunches, we truly recognize very modest regarding the occurrence of tourism in Polar Regions.
主要担心的是，人类可以发出重要的病原体的殖民地之间的野生动物。虽然参观野生动物的地方，游客步行组动物之间不可避免地积累和排泄物在他们的靴子，然而，现有的启动清洗的做法可能不足以避免传播细菌病原体通过访问极地地区野生动物的殖民地的游客（咖喱等人。，2001）。对游客和他们在极地地区的运动环境影响评价还处于起步阶段，虽然有一些有前途的措施。显然，这是非常值得关注的，如果不妥善处理旅游活动的影响，可能无法正确地考虑和可能会导致无法忍受的环境法律风险理论关注的国际条约。尽管旅游业对北极地区的影响主要存在的环境，大企业也存在对旅游业的影响（施普勒特施特塞尔，2004）。
不管这些环境问题，有主张，很难建立至今未经证实的，北极地区的游客是最有前途的南极的使者，他们延长备忘录与环境安全的同时，他们回家的必要性。在和未来的研究尽管我们真正认识到对于束，在极地地区旅游的发生很谦虚。
