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As travellers, what is our impact on the communities we visit?

I looked out the airplane window and saw an endless stretch of white: miles of glaciers, snow, and ice, blending harmoniously with the clouds on the horizon. I was about to land in Svalbard, the archipelago more than 500 miles north of mainland Norway, with a delegation from the nonprofit organization Tourism Cares. We travelled last spring to this fragile region to discuss the role of responsible tourism in a place that is already experiencing the impacts of our warming planet.