cappadocia

Tourism, the activit of person tracelling to and staying, in place outside their usual environment for not

more than consecutive year for leisure, bussines or other purpose. After 18th and 19th, goverment occured

different type of tourism for attract to most tourist. there are a lot of type of tourism; natural,cultural,

rural, urban, dark etc. I want to talk abouth GEOTOURISM in Nevsehir,Turkey.

Geo that mean is Earth's surface. 'Geotourism is use the an important geological future tha cultural and

heritage of monument promote and anhace the culrutal environmental tourism for attract to tourist.

Whichever way it is described, the 'geo'part in geotourism that mean geomorphology and geology. The natural

resource of geotourism include; rock type, rock outcrops, landscape, landforms, soil, sediment

Example for geotourism's forms; volcanic landform, glacial feature, fluvial landscape, aeolion landform,

karst feature, sedimentary environment, coastal landform ect.' ( Dowling R. K., 2010, 5)

In the world, geotourism is a know tourism type, but in Turkey, the geotourism is an unkown tourism type.

They called usually nature tourism. If we look the type of occures or characteristic of Cappodocia,

we easly understand these region must be include in geotoursim.

Cappadocia, in Nevsehir, these region is an inland sea before millions of year. Our contries has stay on

the young and active plate. In these time, movemenet of Earth's crust in the center of the Earth with hot

lava located. In Earth's crust, finding a way out of the deep rock formed in the volcanic mountains of Erciyes,

Hasan and Gullu and these lava was erupted these peak of mountains. Cappadocia was ability to for all due to

these inland sea was dry so, t...

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