IS VOLCANOES VISITS COMES WITH PERIL?

Volcanoes ecotourism increasing day by day,

people are very interested to visit volcanoes
to experience the nature but volcanoes visit
comes with peril. In 2004, Author Heggie
published the first complete study about
health and safety concerns facing by lava
hikers in Hawaii, the study also showed just
how unprepared tourists can be. The most
apparent hazard at an active volcano is
exposure to lava, which can reach 2,000
degrees Celsius.
Yet tourists are often intent on getting as
close to it as they can. I think its the
fascination of seeing creation and
destruction at the same time, says Heggie,
who is now a professor of Sport
Management, Recreation & Tourism at
Bowling Green State University in Bowling
Green, Ohio. The cooler products of lava
also cause many injuries for example, when
tourists venture out onto the surface of thin,
unsupported lava benches or tubes. In April
1993, two tourists died at Kilaueas Eruption
Site when a lava bench which looked solid
from above but was unstable below
collapsed. More than 100 million people
visit volcanic sites globally every year.
About 2 million people visit Hawaii

Volcanoes
National
Park,
home of
the Kilau
ea volcan
o, every
year. But
between
1992 and 2002 at the Hawaiian park, 40
people died, 45 were seriously injured and
53 received minor injuries. Since then,
incidents have decreased, according to the
article, written by Sara E. Pratt. A survey at
the Hawaiian park, with result published in
2004, revealed many tourists were
unprepared to for standard hiking
conditions, and 93 percent admitted to
venturing past warning signs. Another study,
published in 2006 by the same researcher,
Travis Heggie, found that of 5,947 incident
reports recorded in Hawaii Volcanoes
National Park between Jan. 1, 1993 and Dec.
31, 2002, 53 percent of all visitor injuries
took place at the park's eruption site; and of
the 1,698 severe injuries, 69 percent
occurred at the eruption site

IS VOLCANOES VISITS COMES WITH PERIL

Volcanoes ecotourism increasing---, people

are very interested to visit volcanoes to
experience the nature and hiking which
eventually becomes a geotourism
but
volcanoes visit comes with peril. In 2004,
Author Travis Heggie published the first
complete study of health and safety concerns
facing by lava hikers in Hawaii, the study
also showed that how unprepared tourists
can be.

The most active volcanoes lava can reach to

2,000 degree Celsius, according to author
Travis Heggie the most dangerous in
volcanoes eruption is lava fountain which
can make people pass away at that moment.
Although, the lava after sometimes get
cooler it also caused many injuries to tourist
who visited the volcanoes to support this
opinion there is a case happened on April
1993, two tourist died at Kilaueas Eruption
place when the lava bench actually not
stabilize yet was unstable below collapsed.
In this research author Travis Heggie stated
that the most of the hikers were ill-prepared,
lacking flashlights, sufficient water, first-aid
kits and sunscreen not only that some tourist
who were hiking involves in some sort of
unexpected health problem to identify what

causes this problem author Travis Heggie

move on to a deep research where he found
that more than 800 hikers leaving the lava
fields, he also found that many had preexisting health issues, including heart
problems and asthma, which can be
exacerbated by gaseous fumes and
particulates emanating from lava vents not
only that he also said that Silica will just
cut you to shreds.