New regulations present challenges to wildlife viewing in Svalbard, but they haven’t sent tourism into a deep freeze, says Sarah Marshall.

"We can think of the sea ice kind of as the polar bear's giant dinner plate," he says. "It's got these seals laying out there like giant fat pills, and that's what the polar bears have specialized ...

A holiday in the Arctic that’s more than just searching for polar bears - While polar bears are a big tourist draw, the Arctic has a wealth of wildlife to observe and terrains to explore ...