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Volcanic Geotourism in France

New Perspectives for Geotourism Development

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Volcanic Tourist Destinations

Part of the book series: Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism ((GGAG))

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France, land of volcanoes! Hard to imagine? Yet metropolitan France and its overseas territories offer traces of various volcanic episodes that have occurred for more than two billion years. More or less spectacular and until a few years ago often travelled only by specialists, many volcanic geotopes are now the subject of tourism development for the wider public.

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  1. Universe and Environment, EDYTEM Laboratory, Environnements, DYnamiques et TErritoires de la Montagne, Chambéry, France

    Nathalie Cayla

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    Patricia Erfurt-Cooper

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Cayla, N. (2014). Volcanic Geotourism in France. In: Erfurt-Cooper, P. (eds) Volcanic Tourist Destinations. Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16191-9_9

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