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5. Tourist Satisfaction

Ensure that satisfied, excited geotourists bring new vacation stories home and send friends off to experience the same thing, thus providing continuing demand for the destination.

Above, folk dancers whirl and twirl at a wedding festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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