Geotourism and its Planning Opportunities in Hamedan Province

Geographic tourism or geotourism is one of the newest types of planning and main branches of tourism that has been linked with geographic concepts. The generalization of this special branch of tourism is derived from its geographic characteristics. As the attention is increasing toward modern fields of tourism, the necessity of doing research on it is completely clear. It can be also claimed that there is a gap of this field in tourism comprehensive plans. Hamedan province as one of the rich areas in terms of tourism attraction contains suitable places for planning on the basis of geotourism.