香港花岗岩地貌地质旅游的开发

地质旅游利用现有的地质资源，以一种崭新的角度去发展可持续性的旅游景点。香港地少人多，发展旅游吸引点是极度困难的。香港陆地约有30％为花岗岩覆盖，其中的一半已在城市之下，其余的则拥有相当吸引人的地质景象，有极大潜力发展地质旅游。除吸引地质生态有关游客外，在花岗岩地区开发地质旅游，更容易普及地球科学，同时增强公众对地质地貌之欣赏能力，提高环保及地质保护意识。不过，于香港花岗岩区发展地质旅游所遇到的困难亦不少，主要来自规划、行政及安全的问题，当中需要政府、地区民众及地质旅游工作者并肩合作，寻求最佳解决方法。     

海南国际旅游岛视野下的滨海地质旅游发展思路

以地质公园为主要载体的滨海地质旅游开发是丰富国际旅游岛自然科学内涵的重要途径之一,对于海南滨海生态保护和现有旅游产品结构体系升级与改善具有重要意义。本研究采用文献综述及案例研究方法,以海南国际旅游岛为视野角度,对国内外滨海地质旅游研究和发展现状进行分析和总结,其实践经验给海南省地质旅游开发以启示,如资源普查登记、保持地质景观资源的原真性、政府主导下进行地质旅游开发等。结合国际旅游岛战略目标,基于其现有资源、政策等优势,地质旅游是海南省旅游产业发展的路径选择。本研究基于国内外成功经验的启示和海南省滨海地质旅游资源优势,提出了政府主导、企业运作、社区参与的滨海地质旅游发展思路。     

1980年以来中国旅游地学研究文献分析

中国的旅游地学是围绕地质地貌旅游资源的合理保护及利用研究而形成的一门交叉性学科.根据对417篇核心期刊文献的研究分析指出:[1]我国的旅游地学研究明显经历了三个发展阶段,即1988年之前的缓慢起步、个别发展阶段,1988-1998年之间的重点发展、学科奠基阶段,1999年以来的快速增长、全面发展阶段;[2]在地学与旅游这两翼的交叉中,地学旅游一翼同步于这三个阶段相继经过萌芽、隐伏、实践发展逐步成为学科研究的核心与归宿,它是旅游地学有别于其它地学学科的关键支撑之一;[3]地学旅游资源一翼则通过成因、分类、类型、美学等研究为旅游提供科学及景观美学支撑,其中脱颖而出的旅游地貌学已部分地向纵深发展;[4]地质公园则是旅游地学的最佳实践平台,是地学与旅游两翼的对接点,目前研究上尚处于前科学化阶段;[5]旅游地学研究已显现出专门化、交叉性与综合性、人文化、管理化、定量化、生态化等6大趋势.     

Mid‐ and Large‐Scale Geodiversity Calculation in Fuentes Carrionas (NW Spain) and Serra do Cadeado (Paraná, Brazil): Methodology and Application for Land Management

A state‐of‐the‐art geodiversity concept, its use and scientific development are presented. Methodologies for geodiversity calculation are assessed, as well as their aim and problems. Geodiversity calculation methodology based on biodiversity richness index is explained and applied to two different areas: Fuentes Carrionas, a high mountain mid‐latitude environment in northern Spain, and Serra do Cadeado, a tropical mid‐mountain environment in southern Brasil. A geodiversity map of Fuentes Carrionas proves that glacial cirques over 2000 m a.s.l. keep a high geodiversity related to a periglacial and glacial environment, whereas a geodiversity map of Serra do Cadeado shows that high geodiversity areas are situated at its main structural scarp. Geodiversity calculation needs to take scale and hierarchy issues into account, which makes comparison only possible if the same scale is used. Geodiversity calculation is a useful tool for land management as it defines areas subject to protection due to the richness of abiotic elements. It is also useful in terms of environmental impact assessment and geotourism evaluation at remote areas.     

Sustainable geotourism using digital technologies along a rural georoute in Monsagro (Salamanca,Spain)

ABSTRACT

Rural geotourism looks at the natural resources of the territory as a means of promoting a specialized, educational, sustainable tourism. This is an increasingly sought-after activity. This paper presents a rural georoute across a high mountain village, highlighting the remarkable value of the geological heritage of biological trace fossils and physical sedimentary structures exposed on street pavements and façades of houses. A series of tourist georesources were created and implemented: educational and interpretive panels, videos, QR codes, geoapps and games, all of which promote and disseminate the exceptional geological content and the history of the earth through the use of new technologies (smartphones, ipod, etc.). All this is intended as a means to make geotourism a natural tourism, favoring experiences, whilst explaining the natural environment and its temporal and spatial dimensions, offering opportunities for socio-economic development and job creation in rural areas with problems of depopulation.     

Geodiversity and the ‘8Gs’: a response to Brocx & Semeniuk (2019)

Abstract

Brocx and Semeniuk’s (2019 Brocx, M., & Semeniuk, V. (2019). The ’8Gs’ – a blueprint for geoheritage, geoconservation, geo-education and geotourism. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 66(6), 803–821. doi:10.1080/08120099.2019.1576767[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) paper is discussed, particularly in relation to the concept of geodiversity and their proposed sequence of ‘8Gs’. Their ideas on these topics are at odds with the majority of published papers and Internet sources on geodiversity. We argue that geodiversity as a concept has real value and that (a) the planet’s geodiversity occurs at all scales from global downwards, (b) it deserves an absolutely central place in any sequence of ‘Gs’ since it is the backbone of international and national geoheritage and geoconservation strategies, and the basis for geoheritage assessments, and (c) that as well as underpinning biodiversity, geodiversity is the source of many other geosystem services, including geotourism. Finally, a revised proposal for the relationship between geology, geodiversity, geoheritage, geoconservation and other ‘Gs’ is presented.