Geotourism's Global Growth
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Springer
Faculty
Faculty of Business and Law
School
School of Marketing, Tourism and Leisure / Centre for Innovative Practice
RAS ID
12580
Abstract
Geotourism is essentially ‘geological tourism’. The geological element focuses on geology and landscape and includes both ‘form’, such as landforms, rock outcrops, rock types, sediments, soils and crystals, and ‘process’, such as volcanism, erosion, glaciation etc. The tourism element of geotourism includes tourists visiting, learning from, appreciating and engaging in geosites. Geotourism is an integral part of UNESCO’s geoparks and is essential to their development. Geotourism adds to ecotourism’s principal focus on plants (flora) and animals (fauna) by adding a third dimension of the abiotic environment. Thus it is growing around the world through the growth of geoparks as well as independently in many natural and urban areas where tourism’s focus in on the geological environment.
DOI
10.1007/s12371-010-0024-7
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Comments
Dowling, R. K. (2011). Geotourism's Global Growth. Geoheritage, 3(1), 1-13. Available here