What is geopark tourism?

Geopark tourism means the tourism emphasizing the features of geopark of a tourist site. Besides geoheritage, natural scene, tourism economy and geoscience popularization, the features of geopark contain the human, historical and cultural factors of local community.

As for common tourists, the geopark tourism is focused on the following aspects: first, utilizing the geoheritage of a geopark with special scientific value during sight-seeing to acquire the scientific knowledge of formation and evolvement of the earth and to boost the consciousness and ability of tourists to protect the geoheritage consciously; second, taking advantage of some landscapes of a geopark such as grotesque peaks, fantastic caves, high mountains, deep valleys, waving waterfall, flowing springs, glaciers, volcanoes, deserts and lakes as well as changeful and colorful modeling mountains and stones to enjoy the demiurgic beauty of the nature; third, sufficiently experiencing the unique human and historical landscapes and regional culture of the region of a geopark in the process of tourism. In a word, a tourist can feel the integration of science, aesthetics, history and culture indeed during geopark tourism and thereby gain multiple funs during sight-seeing.