Conceptual Framework for Geotourism Valuation
作者单位：Institute for Environment and Development (Lestari) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Institute for Environment and Development (Lestari) and School of Natural and Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science and Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Institute for Environment and Development (Lestari) and Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Institute (Seadpri) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
会议名称：《2012 2nd International Conference on Economic,Education and Management(ICEEM 2012)》
会议日期：2012年
学科分类：12[管理学] 120203[管理学-旅游管理] 1202[管理学-工商管理]
基 金：financially supported by the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) (Grant No. GUP 2011-272 K003281)
关 键 词：Geotourism Geoheritage Economic valuation Costs and Benefits of Geotourism
摘 要：Tourism is changing rapidly as nature and heritage destinations become more important, and as conventional tourism are forced to meet tougher environmental requirements. Therefore, geotourism emerges to meet the new demand for nature based tourism. It is a new form of sustainable tourism which aims to educate people the aesthetic, cultural, recreational and aesthetic value of geological heritage resources and plays as a solution for the apparent conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. With proper enforcement emplaced, this idea of protection through usage should lead to an increase in geological, environmental and socio-cultural awareness among geotourists and local guardians of geological heritage. On the other hand, the growing economic significance of nature tourism might trigger temptation to ignore any possible negative environmental and socio-cultural impacts(e.g. visitor over capacity, unaware and consumptive tourists, inadequate knowledge and enforcement during the construction of tourism infrastructures and amenities ***) consequently resulting in the same harmful effects as that of mass tourism which may put geoheritage resources under a serious threat and there rises the possibility of net loss of geotourism due to greater costs to compared to the benefits. The economic concept of value refers to any net change in the welfare of society. Hence, the measurement of the relative costs(direct, indirect and intangible) and benefits(economic, social, environmental and landscape) of geotourism is important in order to understand the impact of geotourism on the community as a whole, to protect community wellbeing, and to ensure the long term viability of the natural area tourism product. Thus this paper addresses the needs for geotourism valuation to ensure the sustainable development of geoheritage resources and provides a conceptual framework to measure the costs and benefits of geotourism which is vital to the success of a tourism developm