Evaluating the Touristic Potential of Georgia’s Landscapes

Nikolaishvili, Dali; Donadze, Tzetzilia; Meladze, Giorgi; Trapaidze, Vazha; Dvalashvili, Giorgi; Sharashenidze, Manana; Tigishvili, Teona

doi:10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2012.025.d

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“…In Georgia we have approximately all types of landscape zones, which range from humid, dry subtropical valleys to high mountain alpine and glacier zone [3]; There is the sharply expressed vertical zonation of landscapes. The country's highest peak is mount Shkhara (5203 m), while the lowest point is located between Poti and village Kulevi (1.2-2.3 m below sea level) [4].…”

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Resources and Threats of the Eco-Tourism Development in Georgia

Khomeriki¹

2015

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Ecological tourism can play a certain role in solving the problems of environment protection and sustainable and safe development of the country. The article considers some specific problems of the eco-tourism development in Georgia. The results of the study of the tourism potential in the regions in 2009-2014 revealed that: Georgia has substantial means to develop eco-tourism. This is true not only for the protected areas, but also for individual natural and geographical areas of the different regions (historical areas) of the country. The distinctive feature of the country's eco-tourism potential is particularly diversified relief forms and natural ecosystems , in particular, intense variation of the landscapes and great contrasts between them (seaside and mountain, humid subtropical and arid zone, river gorges and steppe landscapes alternate over small areas), widely distributed endemic biological species, and traditional ethnographic, farming and domestic cultural forms survived in the historical regions (mostly in the mountains) of the country. The principal eco-tourism value is the natural ecosystems being only insignificantly modified due to industrial changes and maintaining their "natural originality". In addition, numerous remnants of historical and cultural heritage give them a certain value. They naturally merge with the environment and not dominate over it, but add to its beauty. The threats to the environment are mostly associated with an increasing anthropogenic "aggression", destruction of the traditional mode of nature management meaning certain degree of responsibility and deficient environmental laws and mechanisms of their execution. The problem is further aggravated by the fact that due to the limited territories, the ecosystems of the country are particularly sensitive to technogenic pressure. Concrete eco-tourism projects must inevitably envisage preliminary geo-ecological works.

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Resources and Threats of the Eco-Tourism Development in Georgia

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2015

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Environmental and socio-economic resources at the landscape level – Potentials for sustainable land use in the Georgian Greater Caucasus

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The role of landscape preferences in the travel decisions of railway passengers: Evidence from Hungary

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2018

Moravian Geographical Reports

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When surveying the motivation side of travel and tourism, we can state that tourists consider in their travel decisions, certain landscape preferences – to a certain extent. It also seems to be evident, however, that the objective evaluation of a landscape is a hard task for researchers for numerous reasons. In recent decades, several attempts have been made to create such methods but it seems that, in Hungary at least, this topic is rather neglected. The aim of this study is to provide an evaluation method for the landscape preferences of passengers travelling on Hungarian railway lines, demonstrating how the landscape around the railways could become an attraction during the travel. We survey what types of landscape appearance would be needed in order to generate travel decisions for tourists and also how the travel experience itself could become a tourism product.

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Evaluating the Touristic Potential of Georgia’s Landscapes

Cited by 3 publications

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Resources and Threats of the Eco-Tourism Development in Georgia

Resources and Threats of the Eco-Tourism Development in Georgia

Environmental and socio-economic resources at the landscape level – Potentials for sustainable land use in the Georgian Greater Caucasus

The role of landscape preferences in the travel decisions of railway passengers: Evidence from Hungary

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