Geotourism is a niche form of sustainable tourism that focuses on the geological and geomorphological features of an area, and the associated culture and biodiversity. Geosites are important resources for geotourism development. The eastern and southeastern Lake Tana region in Ethiopia has several geosites with a potential for geotourism development. Despite the diversity of potential geosites and the strategic location of the area in the Northern Tourist Circuit of Ethiopia, only a few attractions such as Lake Tana and the Blue Nile Falls are currently being visited. The objective of this paper is twofold: to inventory geosites in the eastern and southeastern Lake Tana region and assess their potential for geotourism development; and to propose a geosite inventory and assessment methodology for geotourism purposes with adaptations from previous studies. Several studies were reviewed and finally nine of them used as the main references to prepare the criteria, indicators, and sub-indicators for this study. The indicators used for assessing the potential of geosites relate to scientific, educational, scenic, recreational, protection, functional, and ecological values. This research presents the first inventory of geosites in the Lake Tana basin. A first list of 120 geosites has been inventoried. Further screening and clustering resulted in 61 geosites, of which 17 are viewpoints. Among the major geosites are waterfalls, a lake with islands and island monasteries, a flood plain, caves and cave churches, lava tubes, a mountain (shield volcano), volcanic plugs, volcanic cones, rock-hewn churches, and viewpoints. Quantitative assessment of the geotouristic potential of these geosites revealed that clustered (complex area) geosites received higher scientific, scenic, and recreational value scores.

地质旅游是可持续旅游的一种利基形式，其重点是某个地区的地质和地貌特征以及相关的文化和生物多样性。地理位置是地质旅游发展的重要资源。埃塞俄比亚的塔纳湖东部和东南部地区有几处地质遗址，具有发展地质旅游的潜力。尽管潜在地理位置的多样性和埃塞俄比亚北部旅游圈中该地区的战略位置，但目前仅游览塔纳湖和青尼罗河瀑布等少数景点。本文的目的是双重的：盘点东部和东南部塔纳湖地​​区的地质遗址，并评估其在地质旅游发展中的潜力；并根据先前研究的结果，提出用于地质旅游目的的地质遗址清单和评估方法。回顾了几项研究，最后将其中九项用作准备本研究的标准，指标和子指标的主要参考。用于评估地理位置潜力的指标涉及科学，教育，风景，娱乐，保护，功能和生态价值。这项研究提出了塔纳湖盆地的第一批地质遗址。已清点了120个地理位置的第一份清单。进一步的筛选和聚类产生了61个地理位置，其中17个是景点。主要的地理位置包括瀑布，湖泊和岛屿修道院，洪泛平原，洞穴和洞穴教堂，熔岩管，山脉（盾形火山），火山塞，火山锥，岩石教堂和观点。这些地理位置的地质旅游潜力的定量评估显示，聚集的（复杂区域）地理位置获得了更高的科学，风景和娱乐价值分值。