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Volcano Tourism in Turkey

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Geotourism can be considered as a part of natural area tourism and ecotourism, but is a specialized form of tourism in that the focus of attention is the geosite (Dowling and Newsome 2006). However, one of the most important sectors of geotourism is volcano tourism (Erfurt-Cooper 2010) with many people interested in volcanic environments and therefore it is rapidly being recognised as an exciting new direction for tourism (Wartiti et al. 2007).

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by Akbulut’s other studies. I would like to thank Abdulrahman Aksoy, Hakan Baykal, Ömer Ünsal, Bitlis Province Cultural and Tourism Manager for permission to use the photos and Patricia Erfurt-Cooper for correcting the text and improving the English.

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    Gülpınar Akbulut

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Akbulut, G. (2014). Volcano Tourism in Turkey. In: Erfurt-Cooper, P. (eds) Volcanic Tourist Destinations. Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16191-9_6

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