Geotourism

Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Science at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia Foundation Professor of Tourism in the School of Marketing, Tourism & Leisure, Faculty of Business & Law, at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia

• Setting an agenda for geotourism; The significance of aesthetic landscape appreciation to modern geotourism provision; Australia’s geological heritage: a national inventory for future geoparks and geotourism; Centralized data management approaches in geotourism: a view from Finland; Promoting geotourism: a case study from northeast Iceland; The Australian Alps: opportunities and challenges for geotourism; Reconsidering the boundaries and applications of Geotourism – lessons learnt from tourism at Mount Vesuvius; Management of geotourism stakeholders – experiences from the Network History of the Earth; Geotourism in the Hawaiian Islands Lisa M. King, James Cook; The Cretaceous fossil sites of South Korea:identifying geosites, science and geotourism; Geotourism and geotourist education in Poland; Geotourism product interpretation: Rangitoto Island,Auckland, New Zealand; Geotourism potential in North Carolina: perspectives from interpretation at state parks; Interpretation rocks! Designingsigns for geotourism sites; The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site: understanding the nature of geotourism; USA scenic byways – connecting people to places; The UNESCO global network of national geoparks; The future of geotourism: where to from here?; Index

“Both (authors) obviously have a passion for the subject, and this is reflected in their consistent efforts to bring this segment of tourism to the forefront of knowledge in industry and academia... (and)..the authors of the various chapters in this book represent a nice melange of academics and practitioners.” Journal of Heritage Tourism (Vol. 6, no. 2, 2011)