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Dinosaur Geotourism, A World Wide Growing Tourism Niche

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Dinosaurs are not only a very popular science topic, throughout the world, paleontological tourism highlighting dinosaur paleontological sites isbooming. Dinosaur outcrops, “hot spot” of paleontological discoveries, are valorizated into geotourism destinations contributing to local economicdevelopment based on a specific territorial resource: the paleontological resource. Thus, since the 2000s, no less than 30 new dinosaurian destinationshave emerged. The main infrastructures of this touristic offer are open-air or field museums, interpretive centers, local museums, or palaeontologicalparks that value all these discoveries as closely as possible.Stakeholder network graphs analysis shows that many factors foster the success of these tourism projects. Beyond the scientific and/or spectacularquality of the paleontological remains, the networks of actors involved, and the scale of these networking are key-factors to trigger a sustainabletourism development. Several case studies are presented illustrating the diversity of strategies used to develop these projects. Whatever thestrategy adopted, the tourist trajectory of dinosaurian sites must above allrespect the “sense of the place” allow the visitor to apprehend a fascinatingworld forever gone.
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Nathalie Cayla. Dinosaur Geotourism, A World Wide Growing Tourism Niche. Bahram Nekouie Sadry. The Geotourism Industry in the 21st Century: The Origin, Principles, and Futuristic Approach, Routledge, 2021, 9781771888264. ⟨10.1201/9780429292798-22⟩. ⟨hal-03519928⟩
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