Secondly, Greenlandic decision-makers will have an interest in conducting a census of stakeholders in the tourism sectorin order when the time comes to inform them, raise their awareness, perhaps encourage them to change their outlook, and finally support them. The orientation of part of the support systems in favor of actors who engage in the transition has shown its effectiveness elsewhere.
Ultimately, it would be desirable to conduct a sort of self-diagnosis on the threats linked to global warming and exaggerated tourist carrying capacity, for example by using a criticality matrix (which would make it possible to establish a sort of classification concerning the exploitation of various sites, which would go from a high or considerable risk to the absence of a proven risk).
A documentary broadcast on Arte recalls the country’s dependence on fishing (4,000 people, or 10% of the population, work in this sector), which forces it to seek diversification. Naaja H. Nathanielsen, the Minister of Natural Resources, confirms in the documentary the crucial need to find additional resources: “[Près de ] 54% of the state budget comes from outside: this is the subsidy granted by Denmark as well as funds from the EU. So we have a very difficult task to accomplish. We must earn more money on our own in order to be self-sufficient“.
To do this, significant investments will have to be made, because the country is sorely lacking in infrastructure and the climatic and access conditions are much more difficult than elsewhere.
