Specific demands of visitors in the sector of tourism have brought definitions of various new and special forms of nature-based tourism, like ecotourism and geotourism, in last decades. This paper presents an alternative approach to geotourism development via its roadside form. The concept of roadside geotourism is adopted from the roadside geology book series which is relatively well known and popular in the United States of America and some other countries, including e.g. Wales or Australia. In this paper, the original concept has been extended based on recently accepted definitions of geotourism and geosite. Expected output of defining this concept should be, similarly to the roadside geology, in the form of roadside geotourism guidebook or brochure of geotourism related sites and places located along or near existing roads accessible by car, bus or bike, as exemplified on selected road from Košice to Rožňava (Slovakia) in this paper.

Keywords: road, geotourism, geosite, development