What is Geosite ? |
The tourism component of geotourism involves visitation to geosites ! Geosites (geological sites , Geomorphological sites(or Geomorpho-sites), mining sites ,adventure based sites) needs to Geo-conservation measures(Sadry,2009); The human dimension reflected in tourism activity, and indeed the tourism component of geotourism involves visitation to geosites (Newsome& Dowling ,2006); Therefore, All selected geodiversities considered as potential geosites , after providing tourism infrastructures and geoconservation measures will be change to a real geosites, and as a geotourism destination(Sadry,2009),And Finally there may be various forms of geosite planning and management in place(Newsome& Dowling ,2006). Geosites is divided into two parts or two sections of geotourism destination : 1. Primary Geosites (some of those generally mentioned above) 2. Secondary Geosites ( such as : Geo-Museum , For more info about secondry geosites see Hose 2005 and 2006) |
Hose, Thomas A.,:Geotourism and interpretation,In:Dowling R.K.&Newsome D.(Eds):Geotourism-221-241, Oxford-Burlington(Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann)2006. Hose, Thomas A.,: Geotourism – Appreciating the deep time of landscapes ,In: Marina Novelli (Eds): Niche Tourism:Contemporary issues, trends and cases -27-38, Oxford-Burlington(Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann)2005 Newsome, D. and Dowling, RK. (2006) The scope and nature of Geotourisms. In Dowling, R. and Newsome, D. (eds.), Geotourism. Elsevier/Heineman Publishers, Oxford, UK, pp.3-25 Sadry BN (2009) Fundamentals of geotourism: with special emphasis on Iran. Samt Organization Publishing, Tehran, Iran(English Summary available Online at: http://physio-geo.revues.org/1217) |
Thursday, January 13, 2011
The concept of Geosite
