“GEOTOURISM: A NEW ASPECT OF TOURISM” (A CASE STUDY OF BHIMLAT VALLEY)

Nowadays tourism industry has steadily acquired an increasingly important position in the global economy, which helps in not only increasing employment but also people to people contact and promotes ethnic cultural understanding. Presently, tourism industry is offering a variety of products in the form of ecotourism, nature tourism, geotourism, adventure tourism etc. Geotourism in the kind of travel that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place – its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage and wellbeing of it resident. Geotourism derives is not just about where places are. It is also about what places are. At its simplest geo tourism is tourism with connection to geology and geomorphology. Bundi is a gift place of nature. Numerous areas of the Bundi district offer immediate opportunities for geotourism because of the presence of a diverse range of geological phenomena and out crops including amongst many landforms structure, residual hills, folding, faulting, waterfalls and many more. One of them is Bhimlat Valley. This place is full of natural and geographical beauty. The study is aimed to highlight the geo features of the Bhimlat Valley so that apart from an important tourist place it can become a geo-attraction in the world.

 

Keywords: Bhimlat, Bundi, Geofeatures, Geotourism, Rajasthan.


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