0507434 - ÚGN 2020 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Kubalíková, Lucie
Promoting Geomorphological Heritage: Bringing Geomorphology to People.
Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic. Cham: Springer, 2016 - (Pánek, T.; Hradecký, J.), -, - (2016), s. 399-410. ISBN 978-3-319-27536-9
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : geotourism * geoheritage * geoparks * geoeducation
OECD category: Physical geography
Result website:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-27537-6_31DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27537-6_31

Landscapes and landforms have always attracted people's attention, so visiting geosites and geomorphosites is nothing new. In the last years, the number of visitors to the sites has been growing. Of course, the demand of supporting services is also rising. As a result, projects and products focused on promotion of geoheritage began to be more and more important and geotourism as an emerging form of sustainable tourism is gaining more significance. In the Czech Republic, geological and geomorphological heritage is promoted especially within the National Geoparks and protected areas, and there is also a considerable number of smaller projects (geological gardens or open-air expositions and museums, geo-trails, etc.). Institutions such as the Czech Geological Survey, the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic or the Cave Administration of the Czech Republic also focus on promoting geomorphological heritage, their financing is based mainly on public resources. In the future, sustainability of the support of geomorphological heritage and its conservation and promotion will probably become more and more dependent on the cooperation between various stakeholders-both public and private, both professional and amateur.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0298420