Contents -- 1 Setting an agenda for geotourism -- David Newsome and Ross Dowling -- 2 The significance of aesthetic landscape appreciation to modern geotourism provision -- Thomas A. Hose, Buckinghamshire New University, UK -- 3 Australia's geological heritage: a national inventory for future geoparks and geotourism -- Bernard Joyce, University of Melbourne, Australia -- 4 Centralized data management approaches in geotourism: a view from Finland -- Ari Brozinski, University of Turku, Finland -- 5 Promoting geotourism: a case study from Northeast Iceland -- John S. Hull, New Zealand Tourism Research Institute/Icelandic Tourism Research Centre -- 6 The Australian Alps: opportunities and challenges for geotourism -- Pascal Scherrer, Edith Cowan University, Australia and Catherine Marina Pickering, Griffith University, Australia -- 7 Reconsidering the boundaries and applications of Geotourism - lessons learnt from tourism at Mount Vesuvius -- Jonathan Karkut, London Metropolitan University, UK -- 8 Management of geotourism stakeholders - experiences from the Network History of the Earth -- Christof Pforr, Curtin University of Technology, Australia and Andreas Megerle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany -- 9 Geotourism in the Hawaiian Islands -- Lisa M. King, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia -- 10 The Cretaceous fossil sites of South Korea: identifying geosites, science and geotourism -- In Sung Paik, Pukyong National University, Korea, -- Min Huh, Chonnam National University, Korea, -- Hyun Joo Kim, Pukyong National University, Korea, -- Sook Ju Kim, Pukyong National University, Korea, and David Newsome, Murdoch University, Australia -- 11 Geotourism and geotourist education in Poland -- Tadeusz Slomka and Wojciech Mayer, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Poland.

12 Geotourism product interpretation: Rangitoto Island, Auckland, New Zealand -- Christian Wittlich, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany and Sarah Palmer, Murdoch University, Australia -- 13 Geotourism potential in North Carolina: perspectives from interpretation at state parks -- Stacy Supak and Yu-Fai Leung, North Carolina State University and Kevin Stewart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- 14 Interpretation rocks! Designing signs for geotourism sites -- Karen Hughes and Roy Ballantyne, School of Tourism, University of Queensland -- 15 The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site: understanding the nature of geotourism -- Sally King, Anjana Ford, Richard Edmonds, Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, United Kingdom -- 16 USA scenic byways - connecting people to places -- Judy Walden, Walden Mills Group, Wesley Hill, the Geological Society of America and Sally Pearce, Scenic Byways Program Coordinator, State of Colorado -- 17 The UNESCO global network of national geoparks -- Patrick J. Mc Keever, Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Nickolas Zouros, University of the Aegean, Greece, Margarete Patzak, UNESCO, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences and Jutta Weber, Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald, Germany -- 18 The future of geotourism: where to from here? -- Ross Dowling and David Newsome -- Index.