Geosite assessments: comparison of methods and results

L'ubomír Štrba, Pavol Rybár, Bartolomej Baláž, Mário Molokáč, Ladislav Hvizdák, Branislav Kršák, Marián Lukáč, Lenka Muchová, Dana Tometzová and Jarmila Ferenčíková

Current Issues in Tourism, 2015, vol. 18, issue 5, 496-510

Abstract: Geotourism as a rapidly evolving and attractive tourism form expands into many regions. This ‘new’ tourism form brings new research issues to be solved including, e.g. geosite identification, geosite assessment, geopark establishment, (geo)tourist trail definitions. One of the biggest challenges of researchers not only in the field of geotourism is to set specific value of an individual locality. The aim of this paper is to compare selected assessment methods of geosites. Different quantitative methods were selected due to fact that it is possible to compare final score of assessments. The results show that using different assessment methods on selected localities gives different results and geosite rankings. Based on this fact, further research in the field of geosite assessment is needed for (geo)tourism planning and management as discussed in this paper.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2014.882885

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