Skipping the Tourist Traps As a Geotourist ; Preserved Regions Show Appeal

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Traveling to a seaside New England clam shack for fried clams. Listening to jazz in New Orleans. Visiting a small organic coffee farm in Guatemala.

These trips would all make for very different summer vacations, but they have something in common: They could all be considered "geotourism," a relatively new term for travel that focuses on a destination's unique culture and history and aims to have visitors help enrich those qualities rather than turn the place into a typical tourist trap.

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Skipping the Tourist Traps As a Geotourist ; Preserved Regions Show Appeal

The term is so new that few tourists use it. But it's on the lips of travel professionals who describe it as a step beyond the better- known environmentally friendly ecotourism. While geotourism encourages treading lightly on nature, it's also about authe...

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