Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic literature review (SLR) of geotourism and territorial development. Current and future trends in the field are identified. The paper offers an SLR on the geotourism and territorial development and advances through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis comprising the period 2007–2018. The articles gathered in the search on the Scopus database until 2018 were submitted to a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer software. In the papers analysed, a relation was identified between geotourism and territorial development by benefits generated through this type of tourism at social and economic level. The bibliometric analysis also enabled us to identify clusters among the most cited authors that revealed some dominant themes and the relationship between the clusters. By studying the articles’ citation profile, this study’s findings contribute to a better understanding of the flow of production interrelated geotourism with territorial development and research-related practices in this area of research.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Amaral Filho J (2001) A endogeinização no desenvolvimento econômico regional no local. Revista Planejamento e Políticas Públicas, IPEA – Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, n. 23, (junho 2001), 261-286. https://www.ipea.gov.br/ppp/index.php/PPP/article/view/78/89
Audretsch DB, Keilbach M (2008) Resolving the knowledge paradox: knowledge-spillover entrepreneurship and economic growth. Res Policy 37:1697–1705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2008.08.008
Barca F, Mccann P, Rodríguez-Pose A (2012) The case for regional development intervention: place-based versus place-neutral approaches. J Reg Sci 52(1):134–152. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2011.00756.x
Boley BB, Nickerson NP, Bosak K (2011) Measuring Geotourism: developing and testing the geotraveler tendency scale (GTS). J Travel Res 50(5):567–578. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287510382295
Bosak K, Boley B, Zaret K (2010) Deconstructing the ‘Crown of the Continent’: power, politics and the process of creating National Geographic’s Geotourism Mapguides. Tour Geogr 12(3):460–480. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2010.494686
Brilha J (2018) Chapter 18. Geoheritage and geoparks. In Geoheritage, Elsevier Inc.; https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809531-7.00018-6.
Carayannis E and Grigoroudis E (2016). Quadruple Innovation Helix and Smart Specialization: Knowledge Production and National Competitiveness. Foresight and STI Governance 10(1):31–42. https://foresight-journal.hse.ru/en/2016-10-1/178892561.html
Dowling RK (2009) Geotourism´ s contribution to local and regional development. In C. de Carvalho and J. Rodrigues (eds) Geotourism and local development (pp 15-37) Câmara Municipal de Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal. https://www.naturtejo.com/ficheiros/conteudos/files/livro%203(1).pdf
Dowling RK (2011) Geotourism’s Global Growth. Geoheritage 3(1):1–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-010-0024-7
Dowling RK (2013) Global geotourism–an emerging form of sustainable tourism. (October), 59-79. https://doi.org/10.2478/cjot-2013-0004.
Dowling RK, Newsome D (eds) (2006) Geotourism, sustainability, impacts and management. Elsevier: Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford
Dowling, RK, Newsome D (2010a) Setting an agenda for geotourism. Geotourism: The Tourism of Geology and Landscape (October 2016), 1–12. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46156162_Setting_an_agenda_for_geotourism
Dowling RK, Newsome D (eds) (2010b) Global geotourism perspectives. Goodfellow Publishers, Oxford
Dowling RK, Newsome D (2017) Geotourism destinations–visitor impacts and site management considerations. 83, 111–129. https://doi.org/10.1515/cjot-2017.
Dowling, RK, Newsome D (2018) Chapter 17. Geoheritage and geotourism. In Geoheritage, Elsevier Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809531-7.00017-4
EGN (2011) Arouca Declaration. International Congress of Geotourism – Arouca 2011, Arouca, Portugal. http://aroucageopark.pt/documents/78/Declaration_Arouca_EN.pdf
Farsani NT, Coelho C, Costa CMM (2011) Geotourism and geoparks as novel strategies for socio-economic development in rural areas. Int J Tour Res 13(1):68–81. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.800
Farsani NT, Coelho COA, Costa CMM (2014) Analysis of network activities in geoparks as geotourism destinations. Int J Tour Res 16(1):1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.1879
Fassoulas C, Mouriki D, Dimitriou-Nikolakis P, Iliopoulos G (2012) Quantitative assessment of geotopes as an effective tool for geoheritage management. Geoheritage 4(3):177–193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-011-0046-9
Ferrão J (2015) Ambiente e território: para uma nova geração de políticas públicas com futuro. Afirmar o futuro: políticas públicas para Portugal, pp. 328-336. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/19991
Friedman J (1966) Regional development policy: a case study of Venezuela. M.I.S. Press, Cambridge
Garcia-Ayllon S, Miralles JL (2015) New strategies to improve governance in territorial management: evolving from “smart cities” to “smart territories”. Procedia Eng 118:3–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.396
Gordon JE (2012) Rediscovering a sense of wonder: geoheritage, geotourism and cultural landscape experiences. Geoheritage 4(1–2):65–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-011-0051-z
Gordon JE (2018) Geoheritage, geotourism and the cultural landscape: enhancing the visitor experience and promoting geoconservation. Geosciences 8(4):136. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8040136
Henriques MH, dos Reis RP, Brilha J, Mota T (2011) Geoconservation as an emerging geoscience. Geoheritage 3(2):117–128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-011-0039-8
Hose TA (1995) Selling the story of Britain’s stone. Env Interpret 10(2):16–17
Hose TA (2012) 3G’s for Modern Geotourism. Geoheritage 4(1–2):7–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-011-0052-y
Hose TA, Vasiljević DA (2012) Defining the nature and purpose of modern geotourism with particular reference to the United Kingdom and South-East Europe. Geoheritage 4(1–2):25–43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-011-0050-0
Ibáñez JJ, Brevik EC, Cerdà A (2019) Geodiversity and geoheritage: detecting scientific and geographic biases and gaps through a bibliometric study. Sci Total Environ 659:1032–1044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.443
Lopes LSO, Araújo JL, Castro AJF (2011) Geoturismo: estratégia de geoconservação e de desenvolvimento local. Caderno de Geografia - PUC Minas, Campus Coração Eucarístico, Belo Horizonte Brasil 21(35):1–11. http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/geografia/article/view/2069
Martini G, Zouros N (2009) Geoparks… a vision for the future. Revista do Instituto de Geociências - Universidade São Paulo, Brasil 5:85–90. http://www.terrabrasilis.org.br/ecotecadigital/pdf/geoparques-uma-visao-sobre-o-futuro.pdf
Mc Keever PJ, Zouros N (2005) Geoparks: celebrating earth heritage, sustaining local communities. Episodes:274–278. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2005/v28i4/006
McKeever PJ, Zouros N, Patzak M (2010) The UNESCO Global Network of National Geoparks. George Wright Forum. George Wright Society Journal of Parks, Protected Areas & Cultural Sites 27(1):14–18. http://www.georgewright.org/271mckeever.pdf
Moffet B, Moody J (2008) 5 U.S. agencies sign agreement to embrace geotourism, expanding conservation efforts. https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/archive/news/archive/08_News_Releases/080708.html
Myrdal G (1957) Economic theory and underdeveloped regions. Methuen, London
Newsome D, Dowling R, Leung YF (2012) The nature and management of geotourism: a case study of two established iconic geotourism destinations. Tour Manag Perspect 2–3:19–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2011.12.009
O’Connor PJ (2008) The role of geotourism in supporting regeneration in disadvantaged rural communities in Ireland. WIT Trans Ecol Environ 115:267–275. http://www.burrengeopark.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The_role_of_geotourism_in_supporting_regeneration.pdf
Ólafsdóttir R, Dowling R (2014) Geotourism and geoparks-a tool for geoconservation and rural development in vulnerable environments: a case study from Iceland. Geoheritage 6(1):71–87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-013-0095-3
Perianes-Rodriguez A, Waltman L, van Eck NJ (2016) Constructing bibliometric networks: a comparison of between full and fractional counting. Journal of Informetrics 10(4):1–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.10.006
Perroux F (1955) Note sur la Notion de Pôle de Croissance in Economie Appliqué, vol 1, 2.
Podsakoff PM, MacKenzie SB, Bachrach DG, Podsakoff NP (2005) The influence of management journals in the 1980s and 1990s. Strategic Management Journal 26 (5):473-488. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.454
Poiraud A (2018, 2017) From geoconservation to geotourism : A paradigm shift. Annales de Géographie:625–653. https://doi.org/10.3917/ag.717.0625
Silva E, Sá AA, Roxo MJ (2015) From planet Earth to society: a new dynamic in Portugal concerning geoscience education and outreach activities. In: Peppoloni S, Di Capua G (eds) Geoethics: the role and responsibility of geoscientists, vol 419. The Geological Society of London, Special Publication, pp 141–147
Stoffelen A, Vanneste D (2015) An integrative geotourism approach: bridging conflicts in tourism landscape research. Tour Geogr 17(4):544–560. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2015.1053973
UN (2015). General Assembly. A/RES/70/1 (October), 1–35. https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/generalassembly/docs/globalcompact/A_RES_70_1_E.pdf
UNESCO (2015) Statutes of the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000260675_eng
UNESCO (2016) UNESCO Global Geoparks–celebrating Earth heritage, sustaining local Communities. UNESCO, Paris. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000243650
UNESCO (2019) UNESCO Global Geoparks, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/earth-sciences/unesco-global-geoparks/
Vujičić MD, Vasiljević DA, Marković SB, Hose TA, Lukić T, Hadžić O, Janićević S (2011) Preliminary geosite assessment model (GAM) and its application on Fruška Gora Mountain, potential geotourism destination of Serbia. Acta Geographica Slovenica 51(2):361–377. https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS51303
Waltman L, Van Eck NJ (2009) How to normalize cooccurrence data? An analysis of some well-known similarity measures. J Am Soc Inf Sci Technol 60:1635–1651. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21075
Waltman L, Van Eck NJ, Noyons ECM (2010) A unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks. Journal of Informetrics 4(4):629–635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2010.07.002
Funding
This work was supported by the European project “Atlantic Geoparks,” EAPA_250/2016, INTERREG—Atlantic area, and by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through project UIDB/04728/2020. It is a contribution for the UNESCO Chair in “Geoparks, Regional Sustainable Development and Healthy Lifestyles.”
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Duarte, A., Braga, V., Marques, C. et al. Geotourism and Territorial Development: a Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda. Geoheritage 12, 65 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-020-00478-z
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-020-00478-z