Appreciating Physical Landscapes: Three Hundred Years of Geotourism

Appreciating Physical Landscapes: Three Hundred Years of Geotourism
ISBN-10
1862397244
ISBN-13
9781862397248
Category
Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2016-02-01
Publisher
Geological Society of London
Author
T.A. Hose

Description

Geotourism, as a form of sustainable geoheritage tourism, was defined and developed, from the early 1990s, to contextualize modern approaches to geoconservation and physical landscape management. However, its roots lie in the late seventeenth century and the emergence of the Grand Tour and its domestic equivalents in the eighteenth century. Its participants and numerous later travellers and tourists, including geologists and artists, purposefully explored wild landscapes as‘geotourists’. The written and visual records of their observations underpin the majority of papers within this volume; these papers explore some significant geo-historical themes, organizations, individuals and locations across three centuries, opening with seventeenth century elite travellers and closing with modern landscape tourists. Other papers examine the resources available to those geotourists and explore the geotourism paradigm. The volume will be of particular interest to Earth scientists, historians of science, tourism specialists and general readers with an interest in landscape history.

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