Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

• A. Mehrpooya ¹
• A. A. Morovat ²

¹ Department of English Language, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran

² Payame Noor University of Tuyserkan, Tuyserkan, Iran.

Abstract

Basing its foundation on the common sense and relying on the human rationality as a collective tool, this study brings to light the fact that touring in nature by providing the due opportunity of gaining underived data through the rationalistic exploration of nature in its rich variety of geomorphologic and geological phenomena can afford a clearer definition of ‘beauty’, hence the term ‘aesthetic geotourism’. In other words, the geotourist in his own endeavor by taking the natural paths leading to a closer look at the delicate strands of the rich fabric of nature is involved in a rationalistic attempt which will culminate in coming up with an illuminated mental concept of beauty. In the last analysis, touring in the nature and its geological phenomena is among the effective factors helping to illuminate and clarify man's mental concept of beauty, which in itself can open a more reliable horizon toward developing a sustainable geotourism based on rationalistic geological aesthetics.

Keywords

• Geotourism
• beauty
• Aesthetic geotourism
• Rationalism
• Common sense
• Rationalistic geological aesthetics

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