Tourists from all over the world who want to experience "something different" are increasingly flocking to Greenland, the largest island on the planet, located in the North Atlantic Ocean.

In 2021, Ilulissat, the third largest city in the autonomous territory of Denmark, was visited by 50,000 Arctic cruise customers, which is ten times the number of its inhabitants.

The influx of tourists to Ilulissat should increase with the opening of an international airport there.

According to the Mayor of Palle Jeremiassen, the city authorities want to control the arrival of tourist vessels that are extremely polluting the environment. "We don't want to be like Iceland. We don't want mass tourism. We want to control tourism. There should not be more than one ship with a thousand tourists on board per day," he says.

It has been found that over the past 40 years, the Arctic has warmed up almost four times faster than the rest of the world. Icebergs are getting smaller, untouched landscapes, so beloved by tourists, are disappearing.

In Greenland, where every third inhabitant lives off fishing, which accounts for most of the island's own income, climate change has a negative impact on fishing. Due to warming, the fish is becoming smaller and smaller.

According to Danish Arctic researchers, over the past two decades, Greenland's ice sheet has lost 4,700 billion tons, which contributed to an increase in the level of the world's oceans by 1.2 centimeters.