Geodiversity and Mining Towards the Development of Geotourism: A Global Perspective

Geodiversity and geological heritage are considered to be parallel closely related concepts of biodiversity biological heritage. Biodiversity is based exists on the geodiversity a territory. In same way, mining activity distinguished as contributing social economic development. The linked has become increasingly important for its value relationship with tourist activities. This study aims analyze these fields' intellectual structure through bibliometrics current innovative methodology that allows full understanding their relationships between fields cultural heritage, geodiversity, geotourism. following considered: i) Search classified information scientific rigour in an indexed database, using search descriptors cover objective set, ii) analysis articles graphical statistical output schemes, iii) discussion contributions, methodologies used, trends subject. 709 documents 29 years (1990-2019) from Scopus database were analyzed. results show main themes, countries influential institutions tourism, which address six major research topics ranging sustainable geodiversity. Extensive provided other partially addressed, allowing potential areas identified.