A Systematic Review of Iranian Research in the Field of Geotourism Studies
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REVIEW ARTICLE
A Systematic Review of Iranian Research in the Field of Geotourism Studies Mahmood Ziaee 1
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Sajad Ferdowsi 1
Received: 23 March 2020 / Accepted: 11 November 2020 # The European Association for Conservation of the Geological Heritage 2020
Abstract Over the past 14 years, considerable scientific articles on geotourism have been published in Iran. In this regard, the aim of this study is to analyze the level of development of geotourism studies in Iran. The central question of the present study is “how is the quantity and quality of accumulation and production of science in the field of geotourism in the context of Iran?” To this aim, the systematic review method and the paradigm funnel technique are employed. In this regard, a total number of 129 articles published in Iranian journals from 2006 to 2018 were enumerated. The results indicated that from 2010 to 2016, a considerable growth in the number of published articles on geotourism was witnessed. However, in the following years, probably due to the theoretical saturation obtained from the findings of empirical studies, a decrease in the number of accepted and published articles in technical journals was observed. In other words, due to lack of creativity and innovation in such articles, journals are not interested in publishing articles with similar topics and contents. Finally, through finding the gaps in the related literature, based on the paradigm funnel technique, new research ideas and pathways for future studies are provided. Keywords Geotourism . Geosite . Geomorphology . Geoheritage . Iran
Introduction Geotourism was first recognized in the late 1990s in Great Britain and in the first national conference in Belfast. Also in the late 1980s, this country witnessed the opening of geology-based tourism centers, such as national stone center at Wirksworth in Derbyshire (Dowling and Newsome 2010). Geotourism is a comprehensive form of sustainable tourism consisting of topics in a variety of sustainable tourism areas such as rural tourism (Oliver and Jenkins 2003; Ilbery et al. 2007), cultural heritage tourism (Ilbery et al. 2007), based on the tourism community, tourism supporting the poor people, and nature tourism (Ceballos 1996; Scheyvens 1999).
* Mahmood Ziaee [email protected]; http://simap.atu.ac.ir/homepage/9693153/ ?lang=en-gb Sajad Ferdowsi [email protected]; https://scholar.google.ca/ citations?hl=en&user=f-S4sa4AAAAJ 1
Department of Tourism Management, Faculty of Management & Accounting, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Geotourism attempts to minimize the negative effects of tourism through geoconservation management (Gray 2008). The foundation of geotourism is based on geodiversity. Gray (2004) has stated that geodiversity should be conserved for two reasons: first, geodiversity is valuable, and it is validated by many methods. Second, this diversity is threatened by various major activities of human beings. The conservation can be the difference of modern society that should naturally seek to conserve geotouri
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