Joint consideration of molybdenum and tourism leads to a new research field

Abstract

Tourist activities have become so extensive to make reasonable their consideration in the context of environmental geochemistry. The present work focuses on molybdenum and aims at tracing its relationship with tourism. A coincidence of molybdenum production, high number of international tourist arrivals, and molybdenum pollution is several countries indicates on the importance of the noted relationship. The bibliographical survey allowed to find journal articles considering molybdenum and tourism and to delineate three major themes and seven topics reflecting this relationship. In this literature, the biggest attention was paid to the molybdenum pollution in touristic environments. Some articles indicate on the use of this metal in the tourism industry or imply that tourism is a source of molybdenum pollution. The geography of these studies is rather broad. Nonetheless, the established topics and themes need further developments, and several knowledge gaps are outlined. Scientists are called to pay more attention to molybdenum cycling in touristic environments and, more generally, to geochemical aspects of tourism.