Geotourism in the City. What can we Learn in Cities about Natural Disasters?

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the potential of selected cities for the development of geotourism whose subject of interest are phenomena that sometimes assume catastrophic dimensions for humans. The discussed issue has been illustrated with examples from Poland and the Czech Republic, showing the effects of insufficient attention paid to the environment at the stage of investment design and the effects of mining activities in the urbanised environment. It can be postulated that in the development of geotourism, more emphasis should be placed on showing typical geological or geomorphological processes, in order to raise awareness that natural processes operate always and everywhere, including in urbanised areas. All this is related to the educational role of geotourism, which should not only focus on geoattractions as such, but first and foremost explain the processes that led to their creation and the human impact on these processes.