Geotourism: an early photographic insight through the lens of the Geologists’ Association

Larwood, Jonathan G.

doi:10.1144/sp417.7

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“…Tourists visiting waterfalls have a long history, and in the eighteenth century they were briefly termed 'cataractists', perhaps an interesting descriptor worth resurrecting. Secondary geosites have some feature(s) and/or item(s), within or on a structure or delimited area, of at least local significance to the history, development, presentation or interpretation of geology or geomorphology; these include museum, library and archive (Larwood 2014) collections, heritage/visitor centres, geologists' residences, memorials along with commemorative plaques and monuments.…”

Section: Defining Geotourism: a New Geological Paradigmmentioning

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“…Landscapes are an admixture of elements ordered and bounded by travellers' knowledge and experiences. Across Europe and elsewhere different regions with similar landscapes were visited and recorded by travellers (Bristow 2015;Hudson 2015;Mather 2014;Vasiljević et al 2014), tourists (Cayla et al 2015), artists (Ancker & Jungerius, this volume, in press; Pullin 2014), writers and poets (this paper), geographers (Henry & Hose 2015), geologists and geomorphologists (Bristow 2015;Larwood 2014;Whalley & Parkinson, this volume, in press), and naturalists (Burek & Hose 2015) who defined, delineated, described and depicted landscapes from their different mindsets. Within Britain three mountainous areas (the Peak District, the Lake District and the Scottish Highlands) and one coastal area (central southern England) were significant in the development of geotourism.…”

Section: Geotourism Contextualized Within European Landscape Tourismmentioning

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Three centuries (1670–1970) of appreciating physical landscapes

Hose

2015

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Although modern geotourism, as a form of sustainable geoheritage tourism, was only recognized as such in the 1990s, its roots lie in the seventeenth century and the Grand Tour with its domestic equivalents. At that time, a few elite travellers recorded their experiences of landscapes, natural wonders, quarries and mines. Such travellers' observations were supplemented by those of the antiquarians for much of the eighteenth century; at that century's close, the first modern geologists were recording their observations. The nineteenth century witnessed an explosion in public interest and engagement with geology, and field excursions were provided by the burgeoning natural history and geology societies. By the close of the nineteenth century, the Romantic movement had successfully promoted wild landscapes to a newly expanding urban population. The development of the Grand Tour and the landscape aesthetic movements, the various influential institutions, key personalities and locations are considered insofar as they provide an overview of the background to historical geotourism. All are underpinned by a theoretical consideration of the geotourism paradigm and how geotourism historical studies can contextualize modern geotourism.

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Section: Defining Geotourism: a New Geological Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%