By Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper

There are over 1300 energetic volcanoes around the globe and plenty of extra dormant or extinct. a few are constructed as vacationer locations; others aren't, yet have nice strength. Mount Fuji in Japan draws over a hundred million viewers in step with yr and has large cultural and religious value, whereas a few volcanic components in nationwide parks, for instance Teide in Spain, Yellowstone within the US, Vesuvius in Italy and Tongariro in New Zealand, allure among one to 4 million travelers every year. within the final decade the designation of approximately 50 geoparks all over the world has highlighted their capability for tourism improvement. This publication offers the 1st worldwide evaluation and review of the sustainable use of energetic and dormant volcanic and geothermal environments for geotourism. The volcano-based tourism region is additional augmented via a heavily associated variety of geothermal assets and points of interest, corresponding to geysers and scorching springs, that are mentioned intimately all through person chapters masking all key volcanic and geothermal areas all over the world. it truly is proven that volcano and geothermal tourism is a subsection of nature-based geotourism and contains a number of different tourism different types reminiscent of event tourism, severe tourism, ecotourism, eco-friendly tourism, academic tourism, and scorching spring tourism. This finished booklet covers an important problems with this starting to be tourism zone while incorporating proper international examine, making it an important source for all within the box. comprises color plates.

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Island arc volcanoes – see volcanic arc. Lava cave, lava tube – remaining cave which forms after lava flows stop and leave behind a lava tunnel (tube) which can be up to several kilometres long (Undara Volcanic National Park, Australia; Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park; Jeju Island, Korea; Canada; Iceland; Chile; New Zealand). Lava dome – created by slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcanic vent (El Chichón, Mexico; Unzen,Tsurumi,Yufudake, Showashinzan, Japan; Souffrière Hills, Montserrat; Novarupta, Redoubt and Augustine, Alaska; Bezymianny, Kamchatka, St Helens, Washington; Santa Maria, Guatemala; Tarawera, New Zealand).

For both visitor types volcanic environments such as national parks are playing an important role in modern education about volcanoes (Sigurdsson and LopesGautier, 2000). In recent times geoparks on a national and global scale have been added to the protected zones containing volcanic and geothermal landforms, with a number of these also recognized as world heritage sites. Several of these sites are located in regions with volcanic and geothermal landforms as their main characteristics. 1). Quite a few of these listed sites include currently dormant volcanic regions with remnants of volcanic activity, which nevertheless present a visual attraction and evidence of a more violent geophysical past.

In Scotland, Arthurs Seat near Edinburgh is a popular destination for people who want to get out of town into a natural environment. The dormant volcanoes in France contribute interesting geological features with locations in the Central Massif (Graveline and Chabanne, 2002; Chapter 17 this volume), but also down on the Mediterranean coast with the ancient volcano of Cap d’Agde (Bousquet, 2006). Interestingly, before 1750 the volcanoes of the Chaîne des Puys in the Auvergne were thought to be ‘heaps of mining waste or gigantic furnaces from Roman forges’ (Krafft, 1991, p56).

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