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The Hidden Harvest: Harnessing Colorado's Geodiversity and Environmental Heterogeneity for Sustainable Agritourism

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Colorado's geologic, pedologic, topographic, hydrological, and climatic contrasts create strong but under‐synthesized opportunities for sustainable agritourism. This review investigates how geodiversity, and the broader environmental heterogeneity within which it operates, can be used to diversify farm income, strengthen place‐based visitor ...
Bonface O. Manono
wiley   +1 more source

Geoheritage and Geotourism in Regions with Extinct Volcanism in Germany; Case Study Southwest Germany with UNESCO Global Geopark Swabian Alb

open access: yes, 2020
Geotourism has become more popular in recent decades. Volcanism is an essential part of geoheritage and attracts a high number of visitors. In contrast to active volcanism, Tertiary volcanism is often not identified as such by a lay audience and is ...
Heidi Elisabeth Megerle
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Geological Heritage of Syros Island, Cyclades Complex, Greece: An Assessment and Geotourism Perspectives

open access: yes, 2021
Syros Island, Cyclades complex, central Aegean Sea, Greece, is a prime locality for the study of processes active in deep levels of orogens and is world famous for its exceptionally well preserved glaucophane schist-to eclogite-facies lithologies ...
Christina Papantoniou   +5 more
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Assessment of geosites as a basis for geotourism development: A case study of the Toplica District, Serbia

open access: yesOpen Geosciences, 2023
Toplica district represents an area in Southern Serbia with significant forms of geoheritage that have not been valorized yet. The aim of this pioneering study is to systematically analyze and evaluate all manifestations of the geodiversity in the ...
Ivanović Marko   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chinyero Volcanic Landscape Trail (Canary Islands, Spain): A Geotourism Proposal to Identify Natural and Cultural Heritage in Volcanic Areas

open access: yes, 2020
The Chinyero Special Nature Reserve is located on the NW rift zone of Tenerife, between 600 and 1500 m above sea level. This natural setting is distinguished by a significant concentration of monogenetic basaltic volcanoes that have erupted in recent and
Isabel Esquivel-Sigut   +2 more
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Reflections about the conceptual bases of Geotourism and its sub-segments Space Geotourism, Celestial Geotourism and Astrotourism to create a univocal definition

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023
The concept is part of the essence of a mentally represented element. The concept is part of the process of identification, categorization and description, which allows researchers to define and compare themes between two or more different categories. Following this idea, the main objective of this article is to establish a non-exhaustive reflection on
VITÓRIA SANTOS-SOUZA   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Tourism, Well‐Being, and Sustainability: Trends, Impacts, and Perspectives

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 5350-5363, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Research on sustainable tourism, tourists, and well‐being has key implications for tourism policies, which must align with the SDGs to enhance the well‐being of visitors and local communities. This paper analyzes the evolution of scientific production through a systematic literature review over the last 25 years.
Raquel Ibar‐Alonso   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geodiversity Research Methods in Geotourism

open access: yes, 2018
With the emerging new approaches in the field of geodiversity, we can get better use of geographic space in geoparks and increase the number of geotourism destinations. Depending on what we want to study in geodiversity, a suitable research method should
Magdalena Kuleta
core   +1 more source

Geotourism management for sustainable development of tourism: A bibliometric analysis of the main research areas and domains of knowledge

open access: yesEnlightening Tourism: A Pathmaking Journal, 2023
Geotourism has attracted an increasing academic interest in recent years due to the new demands of society for sustainable and alternative destinations and its their effective management is essential.
Rocío Hernández-Garrido   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geodiversity is an inseparable but underutilized aspect of ecological connectivity assessments under climate change

open access: yesEcography, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.
Conservation has shifted towards a climate change adaptation approach in which expected species range shifts are increasingly considered to mitigate effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. As part of this, ecological connectivity needs to be ensured to support gene flow and viable populations in the face of changing ...
Aino‐Maija Määttänen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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