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As a tourism sector with the potential for sustainability for both their visual impact as well as their role in
of the environment under favourable conditions and health and wellness. In combination with volcanic
best practice management volcano tourism has landscapes and geothermal ‘wonderlands’ these are
much to offer for future development, with many powerful tourist drawcards with increasing visitor
untapped markets like smaller island communities in numbers and good prospects for future development
the process of developing volcano and geothermal on the condition that safety issues are appropriately
tourism sites. However, the risk management aspects addressed and suitable risk management strategies
related to temporary visitors discussed in this book for visitors are implemented.
need to be addressed as a matter of urgency and We hope that this first contribution to the
applied at an international level before these literature on volcano tourism provides some
destinations become a tourism reality so that the valuable insights for the reader and encourages
problems faced by existing destinations in this regard further research into the area of volcano and
are not replicated elsewhere. geothermal tourism.
The close relationship of volcanic tourism
with hot spring and spa tourism is also used as a
marketing tool in many areas where the volcanic Patricia Erfurt-Cooper
environment is the cause of renewable geothermal Malcolm Cooper
resources. Worldwide, natural hot springs are used January 2010

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